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Gilbert author turns son's death into grief memoir

Former Highland High School teacher Katie Rizzo realized her grief over the death of her son Nicholas mirrored the stages of pregnancy.

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Katie Rizzo never imagined that the journal she began keeping after her son's death would become a book. She was simply trying to figure out how to live without him.

But as the longtime Gilbert resident and former high school science teacher wrote about losing her oldest son, Nicholas, to an opioid overdose in 2024, she began recognizing something familiar in the physical and emotional turmoil she was experiencing.

It reminded her of pregnancy.

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