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I thought my heart was going to break reading this book, yet I could not put it down. Melissa laid her toddler down for a nap one day, and little Alice never woke back up, having passed from unknown causes.
Melissa traverses the absolute gut-wrenching emotions of losing a child. I shed a lot of tears as I read this book. It is raw, vulnerable, and doesn’t leave any stone unturned in her journey to try and grieve while also taking care of her older daughter, who’d also just lost her best little sister.
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