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Well I can't bring myself to tell the whole story of my Mother's passing but I can tell couple really touching parts of it.
My Mother raised my Nephew. She did everything for him that a Mother would do. She helped him with homework, she was his BoyScout Den Mother, she made all the food and rented all the video games and movies for all his sleepovers, she planned his really cool birthday parties, she was his Mother. All the boys in the neighborhood were always at our house and grew very close to Mom and to me and my husband since I was still living at home helping her raise my Newphew and my husband was my best friend at that time. All the boys were in and out of the house constantly in the last two days of Mom's fight with cancer. One of the boys came over before she passed and when I told her he wanted to see her she said, "huh uh" sounds were all she could muster at that point. She was done seeing people. So I told her that he loved her very much and he wanted to talk to her so I would have him stand around the corner where he couldn't see her and he could talk to her. She made no sound so I told him to come down the hall. He stood in the hallway, this now 21 year old man that we had known since he was 5, and said over and over again, "I love you dearly Peggy, I love you so dearly, I love you dearly Peggy." It was one of the most touching things I have ever heard or seen. Her Memorial Service was filled with not only her friends but my friends and friends of my Nephew. All these people whose hearts she had touched and who "loved her dearly." Life is good! Her life was good, and it meant something, it touched people, it taught people and it made people smile!
Well I can't bring myself to tell the whole story of my Mother's passing but I can tell couple really touching parts of it.
My Mother raised my Nephew. She did everything for him that a Mother would do. She helped him with homework, she was his BoyScout Den Mother, she made all the food and rented all the video games and movies for all his sleepovers, she planned his really cool birthday parties, she was his Mother. All the boys in the neighborhood were always at our house and grew very close to Mom and to me and my husband since I was still living at home helping her raise my Newphew and my husband was my best friend at that time. All the boys were in and out of the house constantly in the last two days of Mom's fight with cancer. One of the boys came over before she passed and when I told her he wanted to see her she said, "huh uh" sounds were all she could muster at that point. She was done seeing people. So I told her that he loved her very much and he wanted to talk to her so I would have him stand around the corner where he couldn't see her and he could talk to her. She made no sound so I told him to come down the hall. He stood in the hallway, this now 21 year old man that we had known since he was 5, and said over and over again, "I love you dearly Peggy, I love you so dearly, I love you dearly Peggy." It was one of the most touching things I have ever heard or seen. Her Memorial Service was filled with not only her friends but my friends and friends of my Nephew. All these people whose hearts she had touched and who "loved her dearly." Life is good! Her life was good, and it meant something, it touched people, it taught people and it made people smile!
You would think after four years the feelings wouldn't be so raw but they still are. But even though the memory is sad because she was dying and I can hear his voice like it was yesterday and it makes me cry every time.... it is also wonderful and touching because it is an honest and beautiful expression of human emotion and that deep of an emotion would not exist if there was not the love and caring and the beauty that is LIFE!
