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Jul 2024
26m 18s

Jodi O'Donnell-Ames

KATHRYN ZOX
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Kathryn interviews Author Jodi O'Donnell-Ames.Jodi O'Donnell-Ames lost her 36-year-old husband, Kevin O'Donnell, to ALS in 2001. She now takes readers inside her own deeply emotional journey through caregiving, loss, grief and those hardest, ubiquitous lessons of adult life. She has devoted herself to giving back to others touched by a life-limiting diagnosi ... Show More
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