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On my 47th birthday, I set the table for three. One seat remained empty, as it had for the past two years—quietly waiting. My daughter, Karen, hadn’t…

His body was itchy, he thought it was an allergy, but a harsh diagnosis changed his life. For several weeks, Laura Gómez, a 32-year-old young mother, began…