The quiet career cost of losing a parent young

Alana Aichholz, whose parents died when she was in high school and college, is about to enter the workforce. Cassandra Klos for BI When Alana Aichholz was applying to college, she read her essays aloud to her mom, who edited them orally because cancer was making it difficult to see. It was one of the last big projects the two took on together, before her mom, Laurene, a writer, died in 2022. "She helped me feel really good about choosing nursing as a possible career," said Aichholz. As the 2...