title: Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief
author:  Harriet Hodgson 
description: Harriet Hodgson has been a nonfiction writer for 27 years and is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief, Lois Krahn, MD Co-Author, is her 24th book. She also writes for www.ezinearticles.com, a website for professional authors, and has earned Exert Author status.
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  **Table of Contents**
  
  Cover Page
  
  Excerpt
  
  Dear Reader
  
  Title Page
  
  Books by Catherine Archer
  
  About the Author
  
  Dedication
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Copyright
  
   _ **God,**_ **Jed thought,** _ **but she was so beautiful,**_
  
  with her dark hair tumbling wildly down her back and curling about her face.
  He reached up to gently wipe the tear away with the back of his forefinger.
  “It’s all right to cry,” he told her softly.  
    
  
  Victoria shook her head stubbornly. “No, it isn’t. I haven’t cried since the
  day my parents were buried. Tears are not to be shed for little things.”  
    
  
  He could only stare down at her, his heart slamming against his chest in
  reaction to the pain revealed by her statement. “You are so brave. So
  beautif