My mother, my grief: a daughter’s reflections on loss

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December 2021

November 2021

Kisses from Heaven
Are you gently sleeping Here inside my dream? And isn't faith believing All power can't be seen “To where you are” (Linda Thompson, Richard N. Marx) If…
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Frances A. Chiu
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“Bliss was it in that dawn…”
Let’s start at the very beginning, A very good place to start… “Do, Re, Mi” As I mourned intensely for Mom during the winter of 2015, I increasingly…
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Frances A. Chiu
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Cecelia Han Chiu
Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end Waitin' 'round the bend “Moon River” By now…
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Frances A. Chiu
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October 2021

September 2021

So long, farewell:
…auf wiedersehen?
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Frances A. Chiu
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The Eye of the Storm, Part 2
At this point, on a Tuesday morning, hope was clearly running out. I wondered to myself how much longer Mom would have. In fact, later that afternoon…
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Frances A. Chiu
The Eye of the Storm
(Part 1)
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Frances A. Chiu
Running on Empty
the race against time
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Frances A. Chiu

August 2021

Kingdom Cancer:
the diagnosis nobody expected
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Frances A. Chiu
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