Shawan Das’ children will never fully understand their Bengali heritage and language. Her son was only a year old when he lost both his grandparents last year.
Shawan’s sister, Sharmistha Das, still remembers Aug. 5, 2022, like it was yesterday. She, her husband and the kids had gone to Comox for a fishing trip. It was 27 degrees out, sunny, dry and gorgeous.
The kids were laughing in the car. Aren’t we so lucky that we have everything? Sharmistha had said to her husband.
That was moments before she got the call that her parents, Suranjan, 71, and Suparna Das, 65, had died in a head-on collision on Highway 97 while on vacation in Vernon,
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