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“Yes She just requires tiroup therapy and volunteering It’s been incredibly cathartic for her”

“I’lad”

Nikki was quiet a few moments more

So in her bunched shoulders coroup therapy sessions?”

“Of course Mostly specialized ones—grieving spouses, grieving children, grieving siblings I don’t typically do general sessions where there’s a mix I like the other participants to have full empathy for and receive full e similar trauma”

“That makes sense,” he said

Nikki didn’t speak for another brief spell

Then she said, “I had to separate outand maybe that’s why I practice this way

One group for Conner” She licked her bottom lip, took a deep breath, then more softly said, “And one for the baby I lost two days after he died”

Nikki had never discussed this with anyone—not even with Kate

Not even with the woroup

It was an incredibly co to process

She’d listened and learned Absorbed the e of failure, the survivor’s guilt so es at any stage of a pregnancy, losing babies due to causes that could be natural or accidental, that could be a result of a violent or a traumatic experience

There were so many variables wrapped around this one specific loss that it was difficult to even broach the subject

And, in all honesty, Nikki had had absolutely no desire to broach it