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    December 9TH

    Sunday, December 9, 2007, 11:19 AM [General]

    Today marks the seventh year that I lost my Mom.  My Dad preceded her by nearly 5 years and most of who she was went with him.  They grew up together since the age of about two.  They were inseparable their entire adolescence and young adulthood, and were married.  It was always just them, the two of them.  I would watch, shortly after my Dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the love and friendship that they had shared all of their lives and it was quite simple and beautiful.  I knew she did not want to be without him and it was evident as the next few years went by.  At 82 Mom was diagnosed for the third time with breast cancer that had metastasized from her first bout with this disease over 20 years earlier.  Her last two years, she was only taking tamoxifin to buy some time.  She was still driving just one week before she died, showing that spirit of "I will do what I want" that she had her whole life.  She always said to me that time went by so quickly and it passes before you realize it, so live as full a life as you can!  Mom was right.  I miss her today and she will be the main though in my mind and heart.  In a letter I wrote and was read at her service, I ended it by saying that this was not good-bye, but asked her to  remember to save me a place with her and Dad.  My heart and memories are of her today.  I love you, Mom.
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