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In late 1978 a son was born to my wife and me. Thirteen weeks premature and weighing just under two pounds, he died, after struggling courageously for 11 days, on Christmas Eve. The events of his birth, life, and death changed things — my sense of myself, my understanding of the world, my feelings about life—to an extent that is difficult to convey even now. And at the time very few people seemed willing to see, to acknowledge, to understand that.
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Peddicord, D.J. (1990). Issues in the Disclosure of Perinatal Death. In: Stricker, G., Fisher, M. (eds) Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3582-3_17
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