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Christmas can be a wonderful and magical time for children, but for those who have experienced loss of a loved one it can also create some challenges.
“I know, I’ll ask Santa to bring Daddy back,” my four-year-old son asked me one morning.
His father had died a few days ago. I realised at this moment that I had a long road of assisting my three children to grieve the loss of their father.
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