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Melissa Andres

Melissa Andres

Bereaved mother from Oxford, Wisconsin, who lost her daughter Allie to brain cancer (DMG) in 2024 and shares her family's journey of faith and grief on the While We're Waiting podcast.

Jul 29, 2026

4:03
Mm-hmm.
4:04
So I know for me, one of the hardest things that I struggled with in the beginning was loneliness, because she was my youngest.
4:14
And Ben had gotten married, and Lily was living...
4:19
Her job was as a live-in caregiver.
4:22
And so she, it was a, um, in-house apartment that she had moved into, and so she was gone for about a year and a half from the time...
4:32
Was that, was that right? I think it was actually only about six months, um, maybe nine months.
4:38
I don't know.
4:41
[laughs]

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