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I appreciate your essay. Its meaningful that a parent who has not directly lost a child to this horror understands the relentless pain, which is so terribly unfair and unnecessary. Mother's day is now a day that rubs salt in my wound and reminds me in a visceral way about the years that are lost for my son and my once close family.

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Thank you so much for this letter, things are turning, slowly towards sanity, I was reading "Hop on Pop" last night to my youngest daughter and the 1st page had a note that my oldest daughter had read this book all by herself on 1/6/00 and she was 5 YO. Her life flashed before my eyes and I had to catch my breath and tears to read it. My oldest daughter is 30YO bearded and breastless, estranged for 5 years and has been pure hell for the last 10+ years. Holidays, Birthdays are the worst for sure. We are not blame for what she has done, we fought with all we had to help and restrain her from testosterone and surgery. I pray for her sanity and for her future and I know that all things workout for God's good purposes. Thanks be to God.

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