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You are an amazing young woman and I'm so glad that you are taking part in Relay for Life. You are beginning to process the loss of your mom, and what a meaningful way to celebrate her life and her fight. It is evident that your mom instilled in you so many good values and determination to do your best with whatever life sends your way. I know that you will be a great success in whatever you decide to do, and also that whoever you decide to spend your life with will be a very blessed person indeed.

I realized the other day that in June of this year it will be 23 years since I lost my own mother. I was 23 years old when she died. It struck me that soon, I will have lived 1/2 of my life without her, the same amount of time that I had her. But like you, I treasure so much those years and am glad that I did have her as long as I did. Its little comfort sometimes, and the hurt never goes away, but in my heart she lives on, and I know that I will be with her again someday. I attended my first Relay for Life 2 years ago. I had never really thought about attending, I think because I just wasn't ready. Just as I arrived, they had the survivor's lap. It was very emotional for me, and I can't quite describe the feelings that went through my head and heart.

, all my best wishes and love to you, and of course support.Take care.

, mom to Rob 17 Spondy

The relay is really cool. Its 24 hours and me and twoof my friends are going to try to walk from 12am to8am.. the night shift. I'm excited to walk for my mom.She was supposed to come to this years relay to walkthe survivors lap, so it will of course be veryemotional to watch that happen and know that sheshould be here, 54 is just way to young to die. I willactually be doing the relay with my sorority, but Iwill be doing the lung cancer walk in August with mysisters so that will be nice. Its hard not to feel sadabout the fact that I only got to have my mom aroundfor 22 years, it really was just not enough time, andto think that if I live to be 80 she would have onlyseen one fourth of my life breaks my heart. But I alsorealize I had an amazing mom who taught me so much inthose twenty two years, who gave me more strength andcourage to go on then she will ever know, I am who Iam today because of my mom because she and she aloneraised me. She was a single parent raising three girlsand she did an amazing job. I am unbelievably lucky tohave gotten those twenty two years with my mom and forthe rest of my life I will carry around the lessonsand strength and morals and courage that she taughtme. And no matter how tired I get from that 24 hourrelay or how bad the JAS starts kicking in, I'm goingto push through, because for those 24 hours I'mwalking for my mom, because she should have been thereto do it, and i'm walking for a cure, so that no oneelse has to feel the pain of losing someone so specialto them. I'm pretty excited for the relay and am justhoping old arthur can stay away for just one day(forever would be nice to.. but arthur is pretty dangrelentless these days).. for my moms sake..With Love (JAS, 22)

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Thank you . Once again I come to this group and I

realize that no matter what odds have been thrown my

way that there is someone here in my extended family

who has been through it and can tell me that yes it

will be hard and there will be good days and bad but

in the end I will come through it on top. Thank you

for being that reminder today. There are many

days that my heart just aches but I know that I will

survive this, you reminded me of that today. Lots of

Love for you and everyone else on this list, you guys

truly are my extended family and I am so glad to have

you in my life.

Love always

(JAS, 22)

--- snooksmama@... wrote:

> :

> You are an amazing young woman and I'm so glad that

> you are taking part

> in Relay for Life. You are beginning to process the

> loss of your mom, and

> what a meaningful way to celebrate her life and her

> fight. It is evident

> that your mom instilled in you so many good values

> and determination to

> do your best with whatever life sends your way. I

> know that you will be a

> great success in whatever you decide to do, and also

> that whoever you

> decide to spend your life with will be a very

> blessed person indeed.

> I realized the other day that in June of this year

> it will be 23 years

> since I lost my own mother. I was 23 years old when

> she died. It struck

> me that soon, I will have lived 1/2 of my life

> without her, the same

> amount of time that I had her. But like you, I

> treasure so much those

> years and am glad that I did have her as long as I

> did. Its little

> comfort sometimes, and the hurt never goes away, but

> in my heart she

> lives on, and I know that I will be with her again

> someday. I attended my

> first Relay for Life 2 years ago. I had never really

> thought about

> attending, I think because I just wasn't ready. Just

> as I arrived, they

> had the survivor's lap. It was very emotional for

> me, and I can't quite

> describe the feelings that went through my head and

> heart.

> , all my best wishes and love to you, and of

> course support.

> Take care.

> , mom to Rob 17 Spondy

>

> The relay is really cool. Its 24 hours and me and

> two

> of my friends are going to try to walk from 12am to

> 8am.. the night shift. I'm excited to walk for my

> mom.

> She was supposed to come to this years relay to walk

> the survivors lap, so it will of course be very

> emotional to watch that happen and know that she

> should be here, 54 is just way to young to die. I

> will

> actually be doing the relay with my sorority, but I

> will be doing the lung cancer walk in August with my

> sisters so that will be nice. Its hard not to feel

> sad

> about the fact that I only got to have my mom around

> for 22 years, it really was just not enough time,

> and

> to think that if I live to be 80 she would have only

> seen one fourth of my life breaks my heart. But I

> also

> realize I had an amazing mom who taught me so much

> in

> those twenty two years, who gave me more strength

> and

> courage to go on then she will ever know, I am who I

> am today because of my mom because she and she alone

> raised me. She was a single parent raising three

> girls

> and she did an amazing job. I am unbelievably lucky

> to

> have gotten those twenty two years with my mom and

> for

> the rest of my life I will carry around the lessons

> and strength and morals and courage that she taught

> me. And no matter how tired I get from that 24 hour

> relay or how bad the JAS starts kicking in, I'm

> going

> to push through, because for those 24 hours I'm

> walking for my mom, because she should have been

> there

> to do it, and i'm walking for a cure, so that no one

> else has to feel the pain of losing someone so

> special

> to them. I'm pretty excited for the relay and am

> just

> hoping old arthur can stay away for just one day

> (forever would be nice to.. but arthur is pretty

> dang

> relentless these days).. for my moms sake..

>

> With Love

> (JAS, 22)

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