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Love Carries On: Making Sense of Loss, Love and Our Maternal DNA

The simultaneous passing of her grandmothers offered a pregnant woman a deeper understanding of life, love, and the divine path of our maternal DNA by Liz Tenety. Photograph of older hand holding younger hand with rose by Jake Thacker
Photograph by Jake Thacker

The simultaneous passing of her grandmothers offered a pregnant woman a deeper understanding of life, love, and the divine path of our maternal DNA

My maternal grandmother died a month before my first child was born. A week later, our family’s former babysitter, a surrogate grandmother who helped raise me, passed away. I attended their funerals that

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