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My Parent’s Letters

Oct 8, 2013 By elinwaldal 12 Comments

“It was simple prophecy.” My mother used to say when describing both her vision and the prediction that she would marry my father the first time she laid eyes on […]

Filed Under: Grief, Marriage Tagged With: Grief, Love letters, Parents, The 1950's

Shepherding death; letting go of my mother

Jun 20, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 31 Comments

  It was the sort of awakening that occurs when a phone’s ring interrupts a deep sleep–the kind that if needed, propels one into motion, only there was no phone […]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: Daughter, Death of Mother, Grief, Loss of Parent, Mother

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