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33 years gone |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced 
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 love you mom you never had to leave this day life would've been so much different but you chose to ... take the easy way out even though I was here and still am 33 years later wondering why you didn't love me enough to stick it out. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I am so very sorry for all these years of pain. Very touching and very telling. ~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways . . . ~*~ |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
Thank you Jerry, I'm in pain today and needed you  |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Dixie, I totally get this. Sending you tons of hugs and kisses - and many thank you's for being the woman you are. xoxoxo Alison PS - I owe you a letter! |
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Lighthousebob Member Elite
since 2000-06-14
Posts 4725California |
This one tugs on the heartstrings. I'm so sorry, Dixie, but, then again, both your poem and picture do make for very nice tributes to your mom. Hugs. |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
such sadness with a lovely lilac wreath to soothe, if but for a moment |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Dixie, Your pain is undeniable. I know it is hard to understand it was not about not loving you enough. The silver lining to this terrible gray cloud is that you are among the unique few that can reach out to others that have suffered a similar loss. You are a blessing. And your ability to write makes you doubly blessed. I'm so sorry for your pain. Bless your heart for sharing your burden with us. Much love... Lori |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Absolutely stunned I didn't see my name on this... I've by-passed it many times in my readings, just because I knew I had already written you !!! Beautiful, loving write, my friend, and I can see where you are coming from, but it's my belief, (I'm assuming she took her life) that when one does purposely check out, it's not because they love those left behind any less, but that they can't find enough love of themselves, and feel leaving is the greatest gift they can leave others with. They've lost so much of themselves, they no longer understand it's they, themselves, that's so important, not the trials, tribulations they have, or cause. And we, painful as it may be , need to forgive them this lapse and love them and their memory all the more. Their final act, to them, was not a ripping away, but the greater gift they could share. ~~~ Note: all that said above, I know there are circumstances that differ, but in my "learnings" of one's taking their own lives, I think in most cases, the above is true; the conscious thought at the end, being what's best, in the long term, for those they love, not themselves. Jimmy |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
poignant, unforgettable, yann |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
the pain is unexplainable, even for one so adept with words the one that wrote her first poem at 10 about a rose she laid on her mother's grave/coffin I don't know if I can ever recover |
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