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A goat farmer in rural Minnesota, estranged from her biological children, finds new purpose as a surrogate grandparent.
Karen and Michelle met in November 2023 on a Facebook group called Surrogate Grandparents USA, a place where older and younger Americans connect over a mutual need for family. MeLea’s three boys, ages 2, 4, and 7, are a cyclone of energy, showing off their rock and feather collections, playing nonsense songs on a toy guitar, plucking daisies from the yard to present to us. Karen tells her the word means “healing” in Hebrew—fitting for a soap that could soothe eczema with its lactic acid but also because she started the business for her youngest daughter, who survived childhood brain cancer.
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