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Abigail Carter

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Abigail Carter wrote The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow’s Transformation (HCI, 2008) as a form of catharsis after her husband’s death in the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Her work has also appeared in SELF magazine, Reader’s Digest Canada, MSN.com and MORE.com and she maintains blogs at www.abigailcarter.com and www.alchemyofloss.com. Abigail is also the co-Founder of Writer.ly, an online marketplace where writers can find the people they need to publish successfully. She can be found on Facebook and on Twitter (@abigailcarter).

Abigail grew up in Toronto, Canada has lived in Sydney, Australia, London, England, Brussels, Belgium, and now lives in Seattle, WA. ...more

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An Alchemy of Loss Podcast

I sat down with Ronit Plank to discuss my story of loss for her podcast, And Then Everything Changed. You can listen below.

Here is the Apple Podcast

And for those that don’t have Apple, here it is on PodBean.

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	Remember the Moon 3.89 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jun 23, 2014 10:05AM

Yay! Thanks so much Chad. I will looking forward to hearing what you think about it.

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Chad B. wrote: "Abigail, thank you for accepting my friend request.
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