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Here’s What Losing My Child Taught Me About Unbearable Pain
By Elaine Pagels — 2018
Elaine Pagels and her husband, Heinz, are dealing with unimaginable loss: the death of their young son Mark, due to a diagnosis an incredibly rare, and fatal disease: pulmonary hypertension.
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