Tuesday , April 23 2024

Memorial For Abandoned Babies Heals The Living, Too

Last month, you may have heard about Miranda Eve, a mysterious baby who was uncovered in San Francisco and identified more than a century after she died. The organization that kickstarted that investigation was the Garden of Innocence , a non-profit that provides burial services to unclaimed children across the state. Over the weekend, the Fresno chapter held a service for babies abandoned in Fresno County—but the garden serves more than children. Ryan Murry was 31 when his wife gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. Adriana would have their first child. “You think this is going to be the only opportunity to become a father,” he says. “That’s the kind of statement that went on my mind. Like, this was it. What comes after this? No one prepared me. Murry retreated into himself, lost interest in his job, and disappeared from his marriage. There was “a lot of inward self-destructive behavior at the time,” he says. “I was drinking alcohol—that was my pacifier.” That was six years ago. Now,
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