title: The Heartbreak of Stillbirth: One Mother's Story of Loss, Grief, and Learning to Live Again
author: Amanda Dunn
description: Amanda Dunn is a proud mother of six. She is passionate about helping others have authentic and honest relationships with God. She is a ministry leader at her church, Vineyard at the Barn in PA. Through her story she hopes to help other parents be honest with their grieving and learn to live again.
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  **Born in Shame**
  
  By Nora Roberts
  
  Born In Trilogy - book 3
  
  Prologue
  
    
  
  Amanda dreamed dreadful dreams. Colin was there, his sweet, well-loved face
  crushed with sorrow. Mandy, he said. He never called her anything but Mandy.
  His Mandy, my Mandy, darling Mandy. But there'd been no smile in his voice, no
  laugh in his eyes.
  
    
  
   _Mandy, we can't stop it. I wish we could. Mandy, my Mandy, I miss you so.
  But I never thought you'd have to come so soon after me. Our little girl, it's
  so hard for her. And it'll get harder. You have to tell her, you know_
  
    
  
  He smiled then, but it was sad, so sad, and his body, his face, that had
  seemed so solid, so close that she'd reached out in sleep to touch him, began
  to fade and shimmer away.
  
    
  
   _You have to tell her,_ he repeated. _We always knew you would. She needs to
  know where she comes from. Who she is. But tell her, Mandy, tell her never to
  forget that I loved her. I loved my little girl_
  
    
  
  Oh, don't go, Colin. She mo