Between Bruises and Blooms
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After surviving storms no one saw, she discovers that home can be a person who arrives quietly and stays gently.
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A mother hopes her children are collecting summer joy even as she aches over all the moments she is missing.
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Two sisters begin side by side, sharing a beginning while growing into two beautifully different little souls.
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Custody is called a battle, but for a mother living inside the waiting, there is no clean finish line—only love that keeps showing up.
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A sleepless mother searches photographs and memory for pieces of the daughter she had too little time to know.
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A Manitoba storm gathers over the prairie, turning wind, wheat, lightning, and thunder into something almost alive.
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A mother finally learns the medical name behind her daughter’s loss—and begins laying down guilt that was never hers to carry.
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The author reflects on the simultaneous joy and grief of motherhood, remembering a daughter lost years ago while cherishing moments with her living children. Despite the passage of time, the love for her departed child persists, intertwined with gratitude for the present, emphasizing that joy and sorrow can coexist in a mother’s heart.
Between Bruises & Blooms 