“By writing it out, the tears that came were also very healing.” “I had to get the courage to put that on paper,” she says. It took Laura the better part of a year to write the final chapter - what happens when your child dies. The book details the journeys of both girls, shares the e-mail exchanges between mothers, and outlines five strategies to help parents cope when they have a child with cancer. The girls became friends, and the mothers - Laura and Laurie Nersten, the book’s co-author - prayed for each other daily and supported each other through joy and sadness, love and loss. Two Mothers One Prayer: Facing Your Child’s Cancer with Hope, Strength and Courage, tells the story of Celeste and her friend, Hayley Filippini, a teenager from New Jersey who has the same type of cancer as Celeste. That and writing the final chapter of a book she started working on when Celeste was better and life was easier. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she says. Laura misses her terribly, but the sensation brings her comfort.
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