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Today marks my twin sons 6th (still)birthday. This time last year my wife had been induced and told to come back two days later.
Hours later her waters broke and we went to hospital so she could give birth shoeboxfullofmemories.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/the…
This isn't the birthday they should have had but we mark it as though they were here with us.
We take their siblings out to enjoy the day not mourn it.
At the time we sought solace in the kindness of strangers so we could share things too terrible to speak to family about wp.me/p6SLXs-24
Each year our sons' siblings learn more and more about them. shoeboxfullofmemories.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/ash…
My son is excited about going to celebrate their birthday and my daughter has been looking at pictures of them. wp.me/p6SLXs-1FB
We think of what they were and the brief lives they did have shoeboxfullofmemories.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/you…
Sometimes it's hard to think of what it may have been like had they lived shoeboxfullofmemories.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/thi…
But sometimes I try shoeboxfullofmemories.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/cap…
I miss my sons.
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