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May 9, 2015

For Mother’s Day, a place to mourn the babies who never came home

Deacon Jim O’Rourke from the the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, N.Y., right, speaks during a memorial service on April 28, 2015 at Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Niskayuna, N.Y., for mothers who lost their children before and after birth.

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - The night she miscarried in 1968, Dorothy Caruso remembers remaining calm, as if she was watching someone else losing a much-wanted pregnancy. The baby was about three months along; she’d already bought a white baby sweater and a set of blocks.

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