The News No Parent Wants to Hear

What do you do when your son tells you he’s dying?

Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox
New Writers Welcome
3 min readNov 28, 2021

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Our children are not supposed to die before we do. We’re supposed to be long gone before our kids go. No parent should ever have to bury a child, no matter how old or young that child is. So what do you do when your son tells you he’s dying?

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Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox
New Writers Welcome

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