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In the summer of 2006 our lives were changed forever when Pete my fun loving husband and dotting daddy to Andrew and Ellie-Rose died very suddenly.Telling the children was heart wrenching. Aged just 4 and 6 they were confused and bewildered. Our family and friends were amazing and couldn't do enough for us. However, Andrew, Ellie-Rose and I were having to live a different life and quite simply we were bereft. Not one part of our lives was left untouched by the grief we were experiencing. I felt helpless in not being able to take their pain away. They needed help to learn to live without their daddy and the pain that came with it and I needed support in doing so. That help came in the form of Shelley Gilbert and her fantastic team at Grief Encounter. Through workshops with other bereaved children, counselling, fun days out, the team visiting the school to train the teachers in supporting Andrew and Ellie-Rose we were slowly able to start living our lives again. Not the life we envisaged but a life in which our memories are not engulfed in pain, a life where we celebrate the times we had with Pete. The support we received is ongoing and we are not the first or last family to experience a loss. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help this amazing charity continue to support bereaved children and their families. On behalf of myself, Andrew and Ellie-Rose thank you from the bottom of our hearts

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