HeyJaredEileen Drennen
Two Places at Once is about the stories that shaped me, inside newsrooms and out in the field, in the past and in the present, while navigating the invisible both / ands of lifelong grief and adoption loss.
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Lights in the darkness (opens the original)
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If you’ve been separated from your original family by adoption, you carry a wound that never fully heals. This is true for the mother who loses a child and the newborn whisked into another family. One grace is that losing your first family makes you part of a bigger family, those who have walked your path before and share what they learn. When death separates us from one another, we grieve doubly — for the person and their gifts.We lost Carol Schaefer last week, one of our greats.<a class="image
Words of love (opens the original)
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