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This is one of the many reoccurring themes throughout the memoir. Angela, a new mom, experiences a tremendous amount of loss. It is not all just physical loss she experiences but it also emotional, and mental.

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Mentally, the family looses their connection. They loose the sense of safety that a father provides a family. The male children also lost their roll model who is supposed to teach them what is right and wrong as a man. A father leads his sons and sets an example but without that the children do not have the leadership they need.

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Emotionally, Angela and her children loose the their father. He is an alcoholic and neglects her and her children. Although he does stop drinking briefly when Angela gives birth to their first daughter but later lets himself and the family go again after she passes away. This is extremely stressful for Angela, taking care of four children with no one to help is impossible for anyone, especially a single mom.

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Physically, Angela looses not only one but three children. At the beginning of the book Angela gives birth to a beautiful baby girl who mends her and her husbands broken wounds but at not even on year old she passes away sending her relationship back to the way it was. She then has a miscarriage upon arrival in Ireland and she is taken to the hospital. Only days after franks younger brother falls ill and he also passes away. In only such a short period of time Angela experiences more loss than any person, especially a mother, should feel.