The Washington Post: The heartbreak of parent-child estrangement and how to cope

When one of my patients thinks about her daughter, she remembers sitting with her in the neonatal intensive care unit for five weeks after her birth, praying she would survive. She recalls the fun they had touring colleges and later helping her set up her dorm room. She remembers them traveling to Europe two years ago laughing at each other’s feeble attempts to ask for directions in French.

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