Living with Leo

Leonardo Di Clemente was born on 27th January 2003 and died the following day.  But what an impact he had, and still does have to this day.  He lived a brave, meaningful and special life.  He touched people, the vast majority of whom never even got to meet him.  Some have said that he changed and inspired them.  Others feel that his short life and early death have taught them something.  As far his parents, through all the pain and suffering caused by the loss of their first child, they have somehow managed to believe that life is still worth living, that the good memories will outlive the bad and that grief is not forever but love is.

Leo's father, Mario, has spent the year since his son's birth and death writing about his feelings, looking back in pain but also forward in hope.  The result?  Living with Leo.  "This is a book", he tells us, "about Leonardo Di Clemente and my life with him.  For in in one very obvious way I am without Leo, in so many others we will be with each other forever."

Leo's father, Mario, has written movingly of his experience of prospective fatherhood and the distress of bereavement. Twelve letters written over a year, from a father to his son, tell the story of Mario's life with Leo: of the excitement and anticipation, the grief and loss, and perhaps most important of all, the emergence of strength and hope.

The letters are intensely personal and yet universal too, and will strike a chord with any parent who has had to endure the devastating death of a baby.

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