We were going to have a baby, but we had an Angel instead – In Loving Memory of Our Daughter, Alana Marie Banerjee Trigger warning – this post deals with pregnancy loss and the death of a child. Alana Marie Banerjee was born on October 4th, 2013 at 2:21 am – 6 lbs 8 oz of pure joy for me and her father.  At 20 inches long, she was a tall baby, with long skinny legs, slender fingers with perfect miniature nails, and big soft feet with all the requisite toes.  She had her fathe

Eulogy for Alana Marie Banerjee Funeral – October 12, 2013 By Michael Durante, Jr. (Uncle & Godfather to Alana) You would think that there’s not much to say about a baby who died before she was properly born, but you’d be wrong. Alana Marie Banerjee – there is a lot to say about you. I could tell you about how you got your nickname, The Bean, because that’s all you looked like to us in the first photographs we have of you. I could tell you about the months of preparation put