VIRGINIA BEACH — If a parent in Sentara Princess Anne Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit looks into the healing garden below, they might see a bright blue rock, painted by another parent once in their shoes, who took their baby home. Until this past weekend, that was the last visible survivor of wind and rain since the previous reunion for NICU “graduates,” before the pandemic. Now, after .
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