title: Loss and Found: A Memoir
author:  Karen Flyer 
description: Karen Flyer, M.B.A. and Executive Director of COPE, a grief organization for parents living with the loss of a child, is a survivor of parental suicide, substance and sexual abuse, a life-threatening eating disorder, and low self-esteem. She is the author of the memoir Loss and Found, which details her tumultuous life. Judy Eldredge-Root, M.Ed., CAGS, is a school psychologist and clinical mental health counselor who has worked since 1983 as a therapist, guidance counselor, instructor in an MA/M.Ed. program, and most recently as a school psychologist working with troubled children, adolescents and teens in and out of a school setting.
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  # Falling for Home
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Jody Holford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Copyright
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Original Copyright © 2016 by Jody Holford Reprint © 2018
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, corporations, institutions,
  organizations, events, or locales in this novel are either the product of the
  author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. The resemblance of any
  character to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic,
  mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written
  permission of the copyright holder.
  
  
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  # Dedication
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To Matt & to Brenda_
  
  
  _For everything_
  
  
  _Always_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0005.html#4OIQ0-3fc72da701bb4d77