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Sunday is World Lights Day, the day on which deceased children are commemorated. Bert and Ingeborg then pay extra attention to the loss of their daughter Luka, who died suddenly at the beginning of last year. “She is always in our thoughts, but on a day like Sunday even more so.”
Every now and then Ingeborg van Stokrom (62) read stories in the newspaper, or heard about parents who had lost their child. God, she thought, how terrible for those people. The worst thing that can happen to you as a parent, she couldn’t imagine. Until she suddenly became one of those parents herself.
She and her husband Bert have had to do without their only child, their sparkling daughter Luka, since January 5, 2023. And that is an indescribably great loss, as is evident from what she says about her. “Luka was really a connector. She was good at listening to people, always knew how to find the right words and put others at ease.”
The fact that people liked being around her perhaps became even clearer to Bert and Ingeborg after Luka’s death. Because the stories about their thoughtful, sensitive, sweet daughter and the ways she touched others just kept coming. Just like her friends and her boyfriend: almost two years later they still regularly eat with
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