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Jack – “What started as frantic messages on my phone during a train ride to say goodbye became an ongoing conversation between the living and the lost”

When my younger brother and closest friend, Sam, passed away just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disorder that effects hundreds of thousands of boys worldwide, I began writing to him from the passenger seat of grief. What started as frantic messages on my phone during a train ride to … Continued

Alan – “A journey to make sense of feelings”

“The Search for Still Waters is about one sibling’s journey to make sense of his feelings around the life and death of his sister, who had severe cerebral palsy. Aoife couldn’t walk or talk and her condition was little understood in 1980’s rural Ireland. When she passed away in 2011, her brother Alan was left … Continued