Death snatches our loves ones from us, but it cannot take away their memories from our hearts. So when Ana Thompson, 36, decided to get married to her long-time boyfriend, her heart was not ready to leave her deceased son Lake out of the family photograph. So, she asked her photographer friend Brady Angel to include her 8-year-old son in the pictures.
“I was sad because he wasn’t going to be in the pictures and it’s like you feel guilty taking photos without him,” said Ana.
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“I needed this picture more than anyone could ever know. THIS is my family.”
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Lake was a normal school-going child until he was diagnosed with cancer. Ana wanted Lake to be present at her wedding, but he died of Leukaemia in May, a few months before the October wedding.
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