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No More 'Fido Ran Away': Plymouth Nurse Writes Book To Teach Kids About Death
A Franklin-born nurse channeled pain from the loss of her father and brother and wrote a book called "My Hot Air Balloon Ride" to teach kids about death and grieving. She also now reads it to her 16-month-old daughter. Alexa Getchell is familiar with grief, after her father died when she was 13 and her brother died on Christmas Eve of 2021. Getchell kept a journal in the years following her father's death, and in 2020 was inspired to turn her penchant for writing into a way to help the children she saw dealing with loss as a pediatric nurse. Her book is for loss of any kind, Getchell says, …