re: #30 HappyWarrior

We always say that my Dad’s parents are having martinis whereever they are. It was sad when she left us but I did feel some peace for her since I believed and you know what to an extend still do despite my agnosticism united with those she had lost like her brother, parents, husband, and old friends. We mourned her loss for sure and I cried that day but I did feel she had found peace. I’d do anything to see and talk to her again though. A cousin’s wife shared with me a letter she wrote to her. Apparently she helped her out on researching her husband(My grandfather’s nephew)’s family and thus my own. I just wish she were still here so I could ask more question and man I wish she could meet my niece and my niece her.

Despite the tension between my dad’s family and my mom’s family, the grandmothers wound up getting along famously later in life. It was a family tradition that they would get together over Christmas at the family estate and put together a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. When my mom’s mother passed in 2006-2007, it was the beginning of the end for my dad’s mother, who had lost her jigsaw partner and one of her best friends. She had retired from city work in the same time frame, so when she discovered she had pancreatic cancer a few years later, the end was unfortunately brief.