This book is a stream of consciousness delivery. The grammar is no-grammar, the punctuation is more like animation and some of the words are made-up. I worried about this at first and then remembered — when children are learning words, their grammar is no-grammar, their delivery is animated and they make up lots of words. [...]
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“It is 1999 and both of my parents have passed away. And there is nothing special about this.”
In 1999, I wrote a book called “Do You Still Laugh? Do You Still Sing? Words and ways to ease your heart when a parent dies” It is a collection of letters that I wrote to my mother shortly [...]
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