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Tag: reliving our losses

Imagine Losing Your Parents Twice!

On November 19, 2020February 12, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized2 Comments

by Bina Mirjam de Boer adopted from India to the Netherlands. It was October 10, 1990. "Imagine" by John Lennon played on the radio. I heard my adoptive mom on the phone tell my sister that our father passed away.... 14 years and orphaned again.My adoptive father suddenly died because of a medical mistake after …

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