A special Thank You…
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I felt a particular fondness for Josephine, who had been an army officer…
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I’m scared… Christmas is almost here and Mom will be exactly 92.5 years old on her birthday…
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I made a new friend yesterday, his name is Lenny and he’s 85. He happens to be dying of lung cancer but we didn’t talk much about that.
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Life was predictably unpredictable in my home as a kid, but one thing I could count on…
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His last conscious act was holding a cigarette and a lighter, and then just staring at his hands,
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The lessons to be taken from my Mother’s life could fill a book.
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She screams herself out of her sleep. Sometimes, it’s pain from the phantom limb, sometimes it’s pain in the existing limb; sometimes, it’s both.
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Surprisingly, it wasn’t Larry who replied to my second e-mail - it was his wife.
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Mom’s full sentence must be served at The Home.
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Could I trust her?
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The hat once belonged to my father, who wore it regularly on family hikes. I remember these hikes fondly …
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I never sing around the house… But then I remember my mom, and it all comes clear.
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Boy, have I missed you!
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Before her, I thought of my fellow humans in simple, black and white terms—the good guys and the bad guys.
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She's facing this with her headlights on, staring deep into the bull's eyes, fingers clenched around his horns.
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It is said that losing a parent is a rite of passage but in truth it is a fundamental heartbreak that may never be resolved.
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Truth be told, there were a lot of years I didn’t have much to say from my heart, so I let Hallmark do it for me... not because the love wasn’t there…
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Of all the send-offs I’ve attended to date… nothing compares to my mom’s.
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