Auction Sale @ John Adamiak's: September 17, 2005

Originally posted by chris vickery
Thanks all, Karmen, Jon.
Yes dad left me around a year and a half ago, in August.
It is ironic how John was there for me, almost like a second father.
He was encouraging and a real inspiration.
Seeing him go down hill so fast certainly was / is difficult considering the fact that both passings were quite close, as were both men to me.
Karmen, sorry I meant to pass along condolences sooner on your sisters behalf.

I know you care, as most do Sorry to hear you lost your Dad, and thats still so fresh for you.

I'm glad you have some wonderful memories and things to "celebrate" ... I celebrate my sisters life for sure and value the impact she had on me from childhood onwards. Nuf said ... I get shmaltzy here and feel more the missing at the moment. A little raw. I'm so very glad we had some time to adapt to the idea that Susie would be leaving us, it made my conversations with her right up til a couple of days or so ago ... all that more precious because while talking with her I felt appreciation for what she was to me and my life ... we got to say I love you and know we both knew that. That was good. She could only listen by then, but she got out the I love you on the phone from her hospital bed. I'm just really glad she doesn't hurt anymore.

Yes ... deterioration happens so very very fast ... and hard. Very hard to see.

Celebrate her life ... and feel and know exactly how and why I love and will miss my sister ... to me, thats honouring her life too. Ya gotta cry lots at first too.

Well ... one thing we ALL know, all of us MLU-ers, is personal loss of loved ones, so we can all empathize. "I hear ya".

All us loonies are human Lest We Forget.

On a tangent I am again ... but thats okay, I know I'm amongst good friends in here.