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[quote=Anonymous]My mother unexpectedly passed away a few months before my first child was conceived.  It's been two years and I'm still grieving in part because having a child of my own stirs so much of that emotion.  Of course, I grew up knowing that my mother loved without question, but now I am on the other side of that parental bond.  Its very hard for me to separate the emotion of say holding a sleeping child or watching him take his first steps or seeing the biggest smile on his face when he is totally drenched in tomato from my feelings of loss.  My parents divorced and remarried other people when I was very young (5-7), so my child has 5 living grandparents, but for various reasons I don't feel like I can really talk with anyone of them about this.

Anyway, now I just really want my kid to know that his grandmother would have been hopelessly in love with him, but it just seems so like it could only make him sad and contemplate the unfortunate truth of death.  On the other hand, I just feel like if I don't bring it up, he won't know and it somehow seems like dishonoring my mother's memory.  I have years to figure this out, but mom was born in April and so I guess this is on my mind now. [/quote]

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