After losing my baby girl in a stillbirth, I buried a small bracelet in her coffin because it was the only gift I had for her. Years later, I saw an eleven-year-old girl in a park wearing an identical bracelet. Her father explained that it had belonged to her late mother, who had also lost a baby at the same hospital just three days before my daughter was born. She had bought two identical bracelets from the same little shop\u2014one to bury with her baby and one to keep. When I heard this, I was overcome with emotion, realizing that during the darkest days of our lives, another mother had stood in the same shop, carrying the same heartbreak, making the same desperate gesture of love. I had spent years believing I was alone in my grief, only to discover that two mothers, strangers connected by unimaginable loss, had shared a bond neither of them ever knew existed.READ MORE BELOW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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