Feed readers, click through for a video well worth your time. There is just something about viewing these images set to music that breaks through my hard little heart and lets me feel this more than words.
Services for Maddie Spohr are being held today. If the airlines accepted heartfelt love and pain as payment, I would be there.
My heart is there with you, Mike and Heather.
My love goes out to all mothers who have lost their babies. For those of you that will stand beside Maddie's parents today, both literally and figuratively, I give you my strength. Every ounce of it.
... The best advice I have seen regarding how we can help has been from a mother who lost her own child, "Don't ask what you can do. They don't know. Just do."

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