Children’s memorial garden opens in Brunswick [Video]

BRUNSWICK, Maine — A new children’s memorial garden opened in Brunswick on Sunday. The memorial, located at Mid Coast Hospital‘s Parkview Campus, has hundreds of bulbs and flowers and a centerpiece of more than two dozen bronze and sterling silver custom butterflies.

The hope is the garden will offer a sense of peace and healing for families who have lost a child. More than two dozen children have their own personalized butterfly honoring their gentle lives taken too soon.

“[To] see that your butterfly is not the only butterfly; there is really important for grieving families, so that they can come together and know that they’re never alone in their grief,” Aime Marzen said. “So even if they haven’t met another grieving family in their …