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Q&A vol. 3 - August 2021
About trauma. Trigger warning. Last month I ventured to publish the phrase ‘I don’t know much about trauma’ as part of this series of reflections. On the day following publication, our son of 16 months, Raphael, succumbed to dengue fever. He died in his father’s arms on Sunday the 25th of July, 2021, in our home in the remote forest of Vanuatu. I have learned some things about trauma. The teaching was issued swiftly, with the force of its very impossibility; our best efforts were not enough to save him, and our boy slipped away suddenly, before our very eyes. It was traumatic in the truest…
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