Embracing Our Years with Gratitude and Hope

An open response to Sherry McGuinn

Barbara Radisavljevic

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3 min readDec 29, 2021

Sherry, this morning as I was preparing to face the world I lay in bed, opened up Medium and saw your story:

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Christian, bereaved adoptive mom, blogger, amateur nature photographer, voracious reader. Married 57 years. Central Coast of California. https://barbrad.com

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