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mnhtnbb

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34. I am so sorry for your loss
Sat May 19, 2018, 06:47 PM
May 2018

and the senseless deaths of children being murdered in this country by all the guns.

Unexpected, unanticipated death of family and friends of any age is hard to accept. But when it's children, it's just so wrong, so not normal. So painful.

I had a stillborn baby--not full term--in 1989 and it crushed me. I was never the same even though a year later I was pregnant and then confined for 4 1/2 months due to complications so I wouldn't lose that child the same way I had lost our daughter a year earlier.

I still wonder what life would have been like had she been born and survived. I wouldn't have my second son. It's all so unknowable. The pride and joy I have known from being mother to the second son still doesn't cover the pain that remains from losing my daughter.

I just can't imagine sending a child off to school one day and then living the horror of having them never come home because they were murdered in their classroom. It's just unimaginable. I don't know how any of these parents manage to go on with their lives.

This country is seriously sick. Seriously messed up to refuse to fix the problem of such unlimited access to guns.

I am so sorry. It is my worst fear. I cant imagine. Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #1
How awful MFM008 May 2018 #2
Forty-eight years ago, I lost a four-year-old. Croney May 2018 #3
I'm sorry for your loss. Maraya1969 May 2018 #9
Eight years ago Scarsdale May 2018 #36
Ubearable bearable Miigwech May 2018 #4
Not sure what that means? pwb May 2018 #6
I'm curious too. Maraya1969 May 2018 #8
OK Miigwech May 2018 #15
It must be devastating DFW May 2018 #5
I am so sorry for your loss Maraya1969 May 2018 #7
As a Mum, my biggest fear - the loss of one of my children...my heart aches for you.. asiliveandbreathe May 2018 #10
Sorry for your loss... Stuart G May 2018 #11
I think losing a child has to be the worst. Especially to see other children grow and have sinkingfeeling May 2018 #12
I am so sorry for your loss and pain. Ilsa May 2018 #13
My father was a minister and a counselor. Sophia4 May 2018 #14
I can't imagine. All I can do is feel for your pain... Honeycombe8 May 2018 #16
I can't even beging to imagine. I won't be able to go on if it happens to me AlexSFCA May 2018 #17
My heart aches for you. cpamomfromtexas May 2018 #18
I'm so sorry, pwb. democrank May 2018 #19
I am so sorry for your loss. smirkymonkey May 2018 #20
My heart goes out to you. I'm so sorry. And your point is a good one. Squinch May 2018 #21
I can honestly say I know your pain. Butterflylady May 2018 #22
When I was a child my older brother died of cancer, my mom bronxiteforever May 2018 #23
Comfort to you Wawannabe May 2018 #24
I am sooo sorry. Duppers May 2018 #25
So sorry for your loss tiredtoo May 2018 #26
I'm so so sorry you lost your baby. Silver1 May 2018 #27
i'm so sorry for your loss. barbtries May 2018 #28
It is the worst thing in the world easttexaslefty May 2018 #29
Thank you. pwb May 2018 #30
So sorry and I understand.... Akacia May 2018 #31
Your living children need their parent Boomer May 2018 #32
I live in fear of that every time the NRA blows away children. So much for the "right to life..." NNadir May 2018 #33
I am so sorry for your loss mnhtnbb May 2018 #34
Same here, we buried a baby boy and the pain is forever. Still In Wisconsin May 2018 #35
We lost our 20-year-old son in 2002. BadgerMom May 2018 #37
I too have lost a child NewEnglandAutumn May 2018 #38
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