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This story is about the power of love - love as we know it and understand it, and love that goes beyond our understanding. The author shares his accounts of the things that carried him through tragedy and helped him move on with his life. It is truly a celebration of two lives whose memories will live forever.

What's the greatest lesson your mother ever taught you? In this true story of love, loss, and learning, Dave Tank reflects on the stretch of turbulent years that carried him around the world many times over, only to return home in the most tragic of circumstances when his mother dies suddenly from an undetected cancer.

Bitter. Broken. Angry. Empty. That about sums it up! My heart was snatched from me without remorse and life as I know it no longer exists. No one understood the pain. Friends and family who wished me the best only made things worst by saying all the right things at the wrong times. I was alone, abandoned even by God, and no one could comfort my dying soul. Reliving my son's last moments every time my loss was mentioned became my reoccurring trauma. Nothing prepared me for this. I realized the only way past the grief was through it, and that’s what pushed me to the pen.

Woody and I almost made our 50th wedding anniversary - a marriage filled with adventure: fly fishing, backpacking in mountains; living in exotic locations like New Zealand and Alaska; and retiring to a beautiful cabin high in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana. But the last two years proved traumatic when the monster Glioblastoma tore apart our dreams for retirement by stealing Woody's memory and sense of time and place, zapping his energy, stamina, and balance until standing and walking were impossible.

This little collection of poetry has been written with you in mind who are seeking comfort and support after loss of a child at any age also unborn, cot death, stillborn. Sometimes when we are faced with a loss such as a child we find we are overwhelmed with grief. You may wish to keep this little audiobook near you for your use whenever you need an extra support method to enable you to seek a little solace until you can once again take control over your own emotions.

This little collection of poetry has been recorded with you in mind who are seeking comfort and support after the loss of a child at any age, including unborn, cot death, and stillborn.