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Miscarriage means carrying ‘almost unbearable pain’
The Duchess described a time when she was in her late teens and saw a woman talking on the phone crying on a sidewalk in New York.
She asked the taxi driver to stop, but he said, “Don’t worry, someone on that corner will ask her if she’s okay.”
“Now, all these years later, in isolation and confinement, mourning the loss of a son, the loss of my country’s shared belief in what is true, I think of that woman from New York. What if no one stopped? What if no one saw her suffer? What if no one helped?
He said he wished he could go back to that moment and stop to talk to the woman.
“Losing a child means carrying almost unbearable pain, experienced by many but few speak of,” he said.
“With the grief of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 would have suffered a miscarriage. Yet despite the striking similarity of this grief, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unjustified) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of lonely grief.
“Some have courageously shared their stories; They have opened the door, knowing that when one person tells the truth, he gives us all license to do the same.
“We have learned that when people ask how we are doing, and when they actually listen to the answer, with open hearts and minds, the burden of pain often becomes lighter, for all of us. By being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing. “
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