‘WE HAVE PURPOSE AGAIN’
Mar 11, 2022
4 minutes
BY JOHANÉ SCOTT
PICTURES:
SHARON SERETLO
‘YOU GET TO A POINT WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ON EARTH ANYMORE’
IT’S a precious moment: the age-old ritual of a couple welcoming a new baby into the family. Monica Stark gently rocks her new-born to sleep then carefully puts her back in her pram while dad, Joshua, looks on lovingly.
But for the Starks, Anastasia’s homecoming is also a reminder of their traumatic loss. It’s been less than two years since a different baby lay sleeping in the same pram.
Isabella, the couple’s first-born, would have been nearly two years old now, a toddler tearing around the house
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