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The Comfort Of A Hug

by Linda J. Austin

Maine, 1992 - The brief phone interview was over. But before I hung up she said, "The only thing you have to bring with you to the facilitator training is something to hug -something soft...a stuffed animal would be good." My first thought was I don't have any stuffed animals. I'm 42 years old. I couldn't see what something to hug had to do with becoming a facilitator for the Center for Grieving Children.

My wedding plans are practically ruined!!

by Paul V Johnson

I am a 27-year-old graduate student who is engaged to be married in four months. We just found out that my fiance's mother has pancreatic cancer and has been given only three to five months to live (because she has had breast cancer for four years and also has a tumor on her kidney).