I’m Grateful I Found a Lightkeeper When My Daughter Was Dying

We were two mothers who had never met, going through the same impossible heartache.

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When I met Laura, both of our children were dying. Laura’s son Benji was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was seven. By the time he was 9, Benji had endured many hellish rounds of chemotherapy and treatment. He had briefly…