The White Butterfly’S Journey

By Debbie Bragnalo

The years keep passing, and the heart keeps breaking. One night changed lives with grief. Our beautiful white butterfly, Carly Marie, was taken from family and friends. A family trip turned into the loss of a daughter, a sister, loved by so many. The tragic car accident took place the night before returning home. Carly had so much to look forward to, such as a wedding with only four months to go. Learn of the injustice in third world countries. As painful as life goes on, this book will help parents, siblings, families, and friends. Support and love are needed by those walking this painful path. There is no time limit on the loss of a child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543475746

Debbie Bragnalo

Deborah Bragnalo is from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Wife and mother of two daughter Carly and son Callen. Deborah and husband Brian loved their yearly family vacation to Treasure Beach Jamaica. Always by their sides was their two children starting from ages 10 and 7 years old. In a blink of a eye all this happiness would be taken away.

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Copyright © 2018 by Debbie Bragnalo.

ISBN:                  Hardcover                  978-1-5434-7608-8

                             Softcover                    978-1-5434-7575-3

                             eBook                         978-1-5434-7574-6

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Rev. date: 01/24/2018

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Contents

Live Your Life

The Presence of a Shining Essence

Angel

Missing Our Angels Together

The Night Before

The Night Before

Let God

The Next Day

Angel

The Night Before Leaving

Treasure Beach Loves You, Carly

One Year Later

How It Started

Our Last Family Trip

Every Day That Passes

No Justice

The Letter

The White Butterfly

Survival

My Life Belongs to Me

The Night the Lord Came

Dedicated to the kindest heart, the most beautiful young woman I ever knew, my daughter, Carly Marie Bragnalo

March 1, 1982 (Sunrise)

April 3, 2009 (Sunset)

To My Daughter

You’ll always be my little one …

No matter how old you reach …

Cradled in my heart, if not in my arms …

Nurtured in my prayers, if not in my presence.

You’ll always be that dearest hope, my dearest dream, my brightest star.

You’ll never go without my love