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What to say and what NOT to say about death
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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 246613" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>Star, first, I've been gone, caught up in my own carp, and I haven't said "I'm sorry" to you. I'm sorry for your loss and I'm sorry I'm late saying it.</p><p> </p><p>When my dad died, my ex mother in law sent me a card. Just a plain notecard with no pre-printed words in it. I don't know exactly her words, but she wrote in it how badly it hurts to lose a loved one and that time will help the hurt. But the thing that made that card stand out was that she wrote about how, over the next year, particularly, emotions would flood me at random times, and that its ok to "pull over and cry". And that those "firsts" (first holiday without him, first birthday without him, etc) would hurt so bad, but we'd get thru them and be ok, and it would get easier.</p><p> </p><p>I carried that card with me until about 3 months ago. She was so very, very, very right, and even tho it didn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy in the 5 days after dad died, it meant to the world to me that she gave me that little "guidance" later on. Out of 400 cards, that's the only one I can really recall.</p><p> </p><p>She's an amazing woman. You are, too. Hugs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 246613, member: 1848"] Star, first, I've been gone, caught up in my own carp, and I haven't said "I'm sorry" to you. I'm sorry for your loss and I'm sorry I'm late saying it. When my dad died, my ex mother in law sent me a card. Just a plain notecard with no pre-printed words in it. I don't know exactly her words, but she wrote in it how badly it hurts to lose a loved one and that time will help the hurt. But the thing that made that card stand out was that she wrote about how, over the next year, particularly, emotions would flood me at random times, and that its ok to "pull over and cry". And that those "firsts" (first holiday without him, first birthday without him, etc) would hurt so bad, but we'd get thru them and be ok, and it would get easier. I carried that card with me until about 3 months ago. She was so very, very, very right, and even tho it didn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy in the 5 days after dad died, it meant to the world to me that she gave me that little "guidance" later on. Out of 400 cards, that's the only one I can really recall. She's an amazing woman. You are, too. Hugs. [/QUOTE]
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