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    Remembering Emily – 7 Years

    TheLoneMingler / September 8, 2026 / 0 Comments

    Seven years have now passed since the birth of our too-soon-gone Emily. This year I have repeatedly thought, “It’s her golden birthday, isn’t it?” But in fact, it is next year when she…

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  • Family photo of Matt, Rachel, Peter, Trevor and Cherie Wood
    Christmas Annual Update Letters

    Protected: Christmas Letter 2025 – Extended Edition

    TheLoneMingler / December 31, 2025

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  • Remembering Emily

    Remembering Emily – 6 Years

    TheLoneMingler / November 28, 2025

    September 8, 2025 was six years since we held our daughter’s 2.1-pound body for the first and only times. Once she was wrapped up in a hospital baby blanket and placed in the…

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  • Christmas Annual Update Letters

    Protected: Christmas Letter 2024 – Extended Edition

    TheLoneMingler / January 11, 2025

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  • Remembering Emily

    Remembering Emily – 5 Years

    TheLoneMingler / September 8, 2024

    Five years have passed since our daughter Emily was born, having entered Heaven before us. Since there have been two leap years in the past 5 years, her birthday falls on a Sunday…

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  • Christmas Annual Update Letters,  Family Life

    Protected: Christmas Letter 2023 – Extended Edition

    TheLoneMingler / January 15, 2024

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  • Watercolor painting of hand healing a heart
    Limerence,  Original Songs

    Conspicuous Dancer (Pray for Me)

    TheLoneMingler / September 16, 2023

    September 2023 has been quite an eventful month in my healing journey. As I continue to become resensitized to life after many years of being heavily guarded, I am gradually more affected by…

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  • Remembering Emily

    Remembering Emily – 4 Years

    TheLoneMingler / September 8, 2023

    Emily has been in the presence of Jesus for more than 4 years now. I remember the quiet of the Sunday afternoon of September 8, 2019, as Emily’s 14-inch-long, 2-pound body lay in…

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  • Christmas Annual Update Letters

    Protected: Christmas Letter 2022 – Extended Edition

    TheLoneMingler / January 8, 2023

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  • Remembering Emily

    Remembering Emily – 3 Years

    TheLoneMingler / November 26, 2022

    In September 2022 came the 3-year anniversary of my daughter Emily’s stillbirth. I try to write my Remembering Emily posts in time to post on her birthday, but I was not able to…

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