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Rest, my Mom

By Denise

November 19, 1931 -- May 11, 2007  10:46 AM

She held me at the moment of my birth.  Today, I held her at the moment of her death. The last words she heard on this earth was Augie and me telling her ? Augie?s ?Angel Face? ? how much we loved her.

She was my mother, but she was his life partner and they?d been together for the past 35 years.  How to console him?  He wanders aimlessly about the house.  I have no words and my own tears come all too easily to offer him solace.  It?s just the two of us here now.  I wish we had a house full of people that demanded our attention.

She loved this blog.  When she was well, she would read it three or four times per day.  I would always try to be sneaky and get in a post and then quickly call her so that I could tease her that I had a new post up that she hadn?t read.

As I?ve mentioned before, my mom had serious heart problems, brought on by years of smoking.  When I started law school 3 years ago she had already had 3 open heart surgeries including having a heart valve replaced. She had emphysema, and was confined to a wheel chair and an oxygen tube.  But, she promised me that she would live to see me graduate law school.  She did one better ? she waited to see me pass the bar.  Yesterday, I sat with her and showed her photos of our new logo.  She approved.  My mom suffered much these past 6 months and I?m so very happy that that suffering is over.  But, oh how I will miss her.  I will hold her forever in my heart.

Farewell, my dear mother.  Sleep in peace.  You are forever loved and forever remembered.

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