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I was 27 and my wife 26 when our second son Peter was born with a serious birth defect. Looking back over the decades, we were just kids—kids who had just had a bomb dropped on us. I could write a book about the things I’ve learned in the intervening decades that would have been helpful to know. But here are just a few of the things that I wish the me of today could have told myself in those…..
In my new book, He Made Us Better, A Story of Faith, Family, Friends (and Football) there’s a subchapter that quotes Mary Poppins, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” For our son Peter and our family, as we went through serial medical crises over a span of decades, we learned that Mary was a pretty smart gal. When we’d make doctor trips to Indianapolis, to make the day more tolerable, we’d usually try to have a “fun…..
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