By Phil Angelo with The Daily Journal
It is one of life's greater tragedies -- coping with the death of a child.
"It never goes away," says Donna Eden Vinke, of the pain.
Vinke, now 65, lives in Kankakee with her husband Bert. She has had the misfortune to have two children die. Her daughter, Lynn, had just turned seven when she was killed in an auto accident, returning from Michigan on a foggy Columbus Day weekend. Her son, John Michael, died of natural causes at 16 months.
Vinke has channeled her grief, her prayers and her hopes into a project that she has eyed for years -- a book. "Heaven at Seven," (116 pages, Tate Publishing, 2009, $10.99) pictures paradise through the eyes of a childIt is one of life's greater tragedies -- coping with the death of a child.
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