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Written by Dawn Robinette Susan Naylor Carrying Will and Charlie: The Heart of Susan Naylor By Dawn Robinette  |  Photography by Suzanne Pack     Susan Naylor sees love in small signs – a penny on a driveway, an orb of light that appears in a photo, an infinity symbol – and takes them as a nudge to keep going. “I feel them around me all the time,” she says of her boys. “This is the way they live on.” She wants the full story to be told, with nothing airbrushed. “Because I’ve got to make sure they live on.”   “They” are her sons, Will and Charlie. And Naylor’s life forever changed on June 3, 2007, when she and Will were driving in Maui. A reckless driver hit them head-on. Naylor was fine, but 8-year-old Will wasn’t. As emergency responders worked on Will, she made a vow: “If he lives ...