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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 676742" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I always find the good threads when I have taken my Benadryl to sleep. </p><p></p><p>I want to add a few thoughts.</p><p></p><p>My son is adopted. His birth parents were dying of AIDS at the time I adopted him. He knows.</p><p></p><p>His only way to remember them, I think, is to live as did they. Hopeless. He is walking scarily close to the life they lived. While he does not have HIV he has Hep B which he acquired at birth.</p><p></p><p>The ceremonies you speak of, ritualized ways to remember are like a talisman. They help us remember and to keep ourselves safe so as not seek out danger or despair to remember.</p><p></p><p>Our families hurt us but they are ours. They are us. As close to us as we will ever have. Especially because we have chosen it, there is an aching, a despair, that we are apart.</p><p></p><p>Here please find a poem that was read at the short memorial for my mother. Her name was Esther. My attorney had sent me a handful of poems, all beautiful, written by his Rabbi who would soon die. His name was Rabbi Schulweiss. </p><p></p><p>Eulogy For One Remembered</p><p></p><p>Not the wisest,</p><p>Not the smartest.</p><p>No t the kindest</p><p>Not the most tactful.</p><p>Not the richest,</p><p>No t the most successful</p><p>No t the tallest, not the bravest</p><p>But my own.</p><p></p><p>Thank you, *I had to separate the letters because no matter what I did <em>not</em> changed to occupational therapist.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 676742, member: 18958"] I always find the good threads when I have taken my Benadryl to sleep. I want to add a few thoughts. My son is adopted. His birth parents were dying of AIDS at the time I adopted him. He knows. His only way to remember them, I think, is to live as did they. Hopeless. He is walking scarily close to the life they lived. While he does not have HIV he has Hep B which he acquired at birth. The ceremonies you speak of, ritualized ways to remember are like a talisman. They help us remember and to keep ourselves safe so as not seek out danger or despair to remember. Our families hurt us but they are ours. They are us. As close to us as we will ever have. Especially because we have chosen it, there is an aching, a despair, that we are apart. Here please find a poem that was read at the short memorial for my mother. Her name was Esther. My attorney had sent me a handful of poems, all beautiful, written by his Rabbi who would soon die. His name was Rabbi Schulweiss. Eulogy For One Remembered Not the wisest, Not the smartest. No t the kindest Not the most tactful. Not the richest, No t the most successful No t the tallest, not the bravest But my own. Thank you, *I had to separate the letters because no matter what I did [I]not[/I] changed to occupational therapist. COPA [/QUOTE]
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