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<\/span><\/p>\nA dancing girl who never danced
\nThe laughing child who never laughed
\nLittle girl loved, but never kissed
\nFlashing eyes which never sparkled
\nTiny hands which never held mine
\nPerfect lips which didn\u2019t smile<\/p>\n
Aching parents you did not see
\nMourning siblings you never knew
\nA birthday of tragedy
\nAnnual remembrance of pain<\/p>\n
Pray for us, our daughter
\nOur sister
\nOur saint
\nOur Bernadette<\/p>\n
Bernadette Marie Frech
\ndied July 1, 2006\u00a0 born July 6, 2006<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo credit:By Lilyu (Own work) [WTFPL], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
**This post originally appeared on Shoved to Them in 2010, but it still says everything I want to say. When people talk about how many children we have, and I\u2019m feeling bold, I say \u201cBut I\u2019ve given birth to eight, and so somehow I don\u2019t think that seven will feel like anything other than one-too-few.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n