Theme: Bereavement: Maintaining Connection, Continuing Bonds

"I think we all work best when we don’t expect each other to change the core of who we are.”

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"I think we all work best when we don’t expect each other to change the core of who we are.”

Carla, mother of Nathan, Audrey, and Talia (diagnosed with infantile Tay-Sachs) speaks frankly about she didn’t want or expect their circumstances to change her. “You can change because circumstances will shape you, and I am a deeper person because of having parented Talia, but I am not CHANGED.”