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By Me

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” - Ian MacLaren

I remember it well. My wife laying in a hospital bed in Sparta holding our son, making sure he knew his mother was there with him. He was about one year old. He was sick and there was no mistaking the look of concern on her face. This little boy, normally so full of life, who giggled and smiled so easily, who had two older sisters who loved him, lay in her arms, eyes closed, opening just w...