Evelyn's Story: Heather Roy on Grief, Gratitude and Every Parent's Worst Nightmare

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 9 a.m.

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Meet Evelyn Faye Roy, a beautiful little girl from Calgary, Alberta, who loved music and dancing and art and books and Star Wars and her friends and family, whose light was blazingly bright and whose life on earth was heartbreakingly short.\\xa0 Evelyn was 11 years old when she died of neuroblastoma in February 2020. This is a conversation about every parent\\u2019s worst nightmare, but it\\u2019s also so much more than that. It\\u2019s about finding a way to hold on in the depths of despair. It\\u2019s about choosing joy and light in the darkest spaces of life, about gratitude pulling us through the most traumatic events imaginable and about the power of sharing our stories. It\\u2019s about Evelyn, her mom, Heather, her dad, Mike, and her sister, Harper. This is the Roy\\u2019s story. To learn more about Evelyn and the Roy's mission to better fund research for childhood cancer, go to www.teamevelyn.ca and follow Heather on Instagram @happilyheath.

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