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Parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds: come here to share the technicolour, the vividness, the despair, the heart-broken-open, the compassion we learn for others, having been through this mess — and see it reflected back at you, acknowledged and understood.
Thanks to photographer Xin Li and to artist Stephanie Sicore for their respective illustrations and photos.
I come to work as I did then, I go to meetings, it's a normal day,
and like every year since, I read my emails from 15 July 2013,
I haven't deleted them,
baby list sent to my sister,
party plans for my son's birthday in August,
plans for finances with hubby for when the baby comes,
plans for a pizza lunch,
a normal day,
last normal day I ever had,
I read them over and over again,
It doesn't change,
Those plans were made,
she was there,
I was waiting...