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Inspired by Gracelynn Eckelberry, this uplifting melody depicts the family ritual of releasing balloons every year on her “angelversary”.

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Darrell and Karen from Flora, Illinois had five children, and their oldest son just found out that he and his wife were expecting. You can imagine their surprise when Karen discovered that she, too, was pregnant. It seemed quite humorous to think that this baby’s niece was going to be older.

Their world came crashing down, however, when Karen was rushed to the hospital for bleeding. On July 16th, 2007, the doctors delivered Gracelynn by C-section. At 26 weeks she was only 1 lb. 13 oz. and 13 inches long. Her lung collapsed but she slowly recovered over the next 18 days.

Karen describes the terrible story of what happened next, “They were giving her my expressed breastmilk and she was tolerating it really well. Every day was a good report and I was able to take her temperature and change her diaper...Unfortunately one thing I wasn't able to do yet was hold her. I was told very bluntly by a pediatrician I had never seen before that she was dying and there wasn't anything they could do. She had developed NEC (necrotizing-enterocolitis) which had killed all of her bowels. Then we found out that a day and a half before they had started adding fortifier to my breastmilk because 'it's routine'. She couldn't tolerate it and it killed her. That was one of the hardest days of our lives. She grew her angel wings at about 4:45am August 4th, 2007. We held her and loved her for several hours.”

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from Now I Sleep (Solo Piano), released April 22, 2011

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