Got an e-mail from Jeff (lawyer of the estate). Things are proceeding. I've sent him a note back.

He mentions in the note that my cousin Anna is very ill. Not that I wasn't expecting it: Anna's cancer has spread to her liver and she was having a go at more chemo when I last spoke to her. But you have to know Anna. She was always strong...a bulwark. She had so many problems—severe psoriasis, other health problems, having to sell Avon to supplement the family income, at one point a sick mother and later a sick father—but she was always out there fighting. She raised her kids to be good people, helped keep food on the table, took care of innumerable grandchildren, and still found time for all the little things that make the house a home: good food, good conversation, a stable lighthouse in a world of storms.

And now the light is failing and it's hard to see...

I wish it were last year. All I'd be doing now is waiting for my car back and in eight days I would get to see my mother again.

I'm sitting at my desk and crying too often these days.

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You need a hug, Linda. You need a big hug.

((HUGS!!!!!))

I know it can't make your mother come back, or build your house, or make your cousin better...but maybe it'll make YOU feel better, if only for a little while. : 0 )

# posted by  Emma : 7:44:00 PM

 

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