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June 7, 2009
You haven't left, really. You are still with me each and every day. I shed tears daily, think of you daily, trying to figure out your life....so many questions left unanswered. I feel close to you, now that you're gone. Sometimes, I feel like you're living again partly through me. My thoughts can be totaly elsewhere, and a snapshot of you, complete with flash, will pop into my mind. It's alittle unsettling, to say the least. I've learned to accept these with ease now, without a racing heart. I've learned how to live my life through you and also how not to. I wish you were still here, ridiculously happy, close to all of us. I wish we could have seen you more, spent time having lovely lunches together, going on adventures, marveling at the beautiful weather and nature. I pray you are in the hands of God, so at peace, so surrounded with love, so content. Thank you for all you ever did for me, with me and to me. Thank you for your own kind of love and all the love you had stuck inside that never got out. The little ones still remember you, talk about you being up in the stars. Do you hear them? Can you see how beautiful and precious they are? They are a part of you, and because of you and those before, they have life. Thank you for giving me life, so that I could share in the miracle of giving life too. Such a simple thing, yet so utterly awesome. It's been almost a year now but somehow, it feels like yesterday. When I think about it, it jolts me like an electric shock. I wonder when that will subside. I enjoy looking at all your old pictures. I do that alot wondering what your childhood was really like, wondering what your relationship was with your mother. Always wondering. I cherish that picture of my great grandpa, Nana, you and me at 5 years old. You wrote on the back 114 years of life. Simply beautiful! You look so young, hopeful, proud and beautiful. It has taken me the time since you died to discover you are as human as I am. Each fresh insight makes me see the world a little differently.
Be at peace and guide us all so that we can gracefully enjoy the rest of our lives with the end being the dessert. I love you, I miss you, always
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