Chapter 6 - Audiobook (Grief)

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This episode is the audio version of Chapter Six of Pieces of Purple: Grief. To view all the episodes in this series, including the conversations with TCKs that drop two weeks after each chapter, follow this link to the Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PIECESOFPURPLECHANNEL

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3. My ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠playlist⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ of video "nuggets" on Youtube.

4. My novel about a missionary family, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Of Stillness and Storm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The title of the podcast is a nod to the complex, beautiful, sometimes confounding, always life-shaping and ideally life-enhancing effects of growing up in the color swirl of cultures and worlds.

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Helpful definitions:

· MK or Missionaries' Kid - the child of missionaries.

· TCK or Third Culture Kid - someone who has spent a majority of his/her formative years in a culture other than his/her passport culture. This inclu