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[DVV]

Linda était adorable.

[belinda]

Can't believe it's been a whole year since Linda passed.She was such a wonderful person.

It has been a horrible year I lost my Mother last week.

[Archaic]

Belinda, I'm so sorry about your mother! I know what that feels like, but no words can express it.

I'll keep both you and her in my thoughts and prayers too.

God bless,
Archaic

[Archaic]

Hello Bunny

Thank you (genuinely) for caring so much for so many of us

God bless

Dave

Thank you Dave. I've met so many wonderful people here, and I do care.

Robert, you're right. So much suffering, illness and death in the past year... I keep feeling like I can't take one more grief.

Everybody copes in a different way, but with all the suffering and chaos, I find it helps to try to do something positive ... to choose to commit positive actions and to think of others instead of just drowning in one's own tears.

I'm trying to help my old friend Mike who was recently diagnosed with Stage IV Cancer that has already spread to his liver. They've given him a few months.

Last week told me he wishes he had a soft couch for when he hurts too much to sit up in his favorite easy chair, and I found one today but then had a dilemma about how to deliver it - when a kind stranger who has Leukemia that is in remission volunteered to chip in for the cost and deliver the sofa for me, because he understands how down and scared Mike is feeling right now.

I'm so touched by this person's kindness! He said that getting Cancer completely changed his perspective on life. Now my friend Mike will be able to watch the Baseball World Series in comfort. He's really happy.

I cried a lot today, but I feel like Linda will approve of how I spent my day, and that matters to me.

Take care everybody,
Bunny

[sdreid]

It has been a bad year. My dad, 93, died earlier this year and my uncle (mom's brother) died earlier this month at age 99.

[Mayerling]

Sorry to hear about your personal losses this year Stan.

Jeff

[belinda]

Belinda, I'm so sorry about your mother! I know what that feels like, but no words can express it.

I'll keep both you and her in my thoughts and prayers too.

God bless,
Archaic

Thank You words really can't express how it feels.

Stan I'm sorry to hear about your losses

[sdreid]

Thank you for the thoughts Jeff. My condolences to you Belinda and thank you.

[Hunter]

Treat yourself lightly
Treat yourself kind
There's no need to worry on
You will be fine
You will leave this place laughing
And somebody will cry
There is deep in the valley
Wonder not why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELVQNp14dI

[Archaic]

That's a beautiful song, Cris. Linda would love it.

Linda and I had so many tastes and interests in common. We were in touch multiple times in a day.

Every day I come across a beautiful song, a fascinating book or article, a funny remark, a wonderful photograph, a good cause, an event in my life, or just something cool that I know she'd absolutely love, and I immediately want to share it with her... and then it hits me all over again that I can't.

I miss Linda's wisdom, her humor, her intelligence, her curiosity, and her compassion.

I do my best to give emotional support to her husband and sister. We stay in close touch. We all agree that we wouldn't want to be selfish and keep Linda here with us when it would have meant she had to endure more suffering.

I thought that over the course of the past year I had finally come to some level of acceptance of her death, but I've spent the whole morning crying.

Bunny

[curious]

That's a beautiful song, Cris. Linda would love it.

Linda and I had so many tastes and interests in common. We were in touch multiple times in a day.

Every day I come across a beautiful song, a fascinating book or article, a funny remark, a wonderful photograph, a good cause, an event in my life, or just something cool that I know she'd absolutely love, and I immediately want to share it with her... and then it hits me all over again that I can't.

I miss Linda's wisdom, her humor, her intelligence, her curiosity, and her compassion.

I do my best to give emotional support to her husband and sister. We stay in close touch. We all agree that we wouldn't want to be selfish and keep Linda here with us when it would have meant she had to endure more suffering.

I thought that over the course of the past year I had finally come to some level of acceptance of her death, but I've spent the whole morning crying.

Bunny

What a wonderful, touching thread, and such caring sentiments beautifully expressed.

It's comforting and reassuring to know there are such good, thoughtful people in the world and on Casebook.

My thoughts and prayers to those of you who are grieving, may you all find comfort and peace.

And thanks to everyone who has posted, it has brightened my day.

Velma

[Hunter]

Velma

True friendship is special
And unfortunately, it is rare
But it makes it all the more special
It transcends the usual selfishness that inhabits many

And it triumphs in the end because it outlast it all...
...even death

Nothing in this world is everlasting or even remembered for long
Except the love we leave behind
It never dies

[curious]

Velma

True friendship is special
And unfortunately, it is rare
But it makes it all the more special
It transcends the usual selfishness that inhabits many

And it triumphs in the end because it outlast it all...
...even death

Nothing in this world is everlasting or even remembered for long
Except the love we leave behind
It never dies

you're right, Hunter, true friendship is indeed special. For me, the visual image is a great, golden ball of sunshine with rays escaping the boundaries and extending outward or maybe that's my mental image of love itself . . . they seem intertwined in my fuzzy brain today.

Velma

[Carol]

Dear Belinda and Stan,

I'm so sorry to hear that you have both recently lost loved ones. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

With love from Carol

[Carol]

It doesn't seem possible that a whole year has gone by since Linda passed away. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you who are still grieving. I was only just beginning to get to know her really shortly before she died but I am very sad that she had to leave.

With love from Carol