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moving up

Hardship & Loss, Motivation & Perseverance, Personal Journey · September 27, 2018

Moving Forward After Moving Up

My daughter Jena moved up to heaven on Monday, December 4, 2006. I will never be ok. Everything around me now has a different meaning than it did before that exact moment in time. Ironically, now I am able to see beauty in almost everything. I also have lost the capacity to let …

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