TheBanyanTree: The Fourth Anniversary

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NancyLee, I am so,so sad to read this. Please feel the warmth of our concern for you. 

Margaret, your writing was lovely. I know this has been a hard journey for you. Thank you for sharing it with us. 

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On Feb 26, 2012, at 1:32 PM, NancyIee at aol.com wrote:

> Margaret,
> 
> Your posting has helped me today more than you could ever realize.   This 
> past Tuesday, my husband passed away instantly from a horrid  accident.  We 
> had spent the morning together, breakfast, then back to his  house to play on 
> the computer (he liked to show me his mail, lol) and then we  planned our 
> weekend. This weekend.  You see, we had separated some years  ago, and slowly 
> were making our way back to each other. We were talking "future"  and 
> forever. and I realized that in spite of the crap that separated us, he and  I 
> were always, he and I.
> 
> I am in a million pieces.
> 
> But, your posting helped, since I still feel him, smell him, hear  him.
> 
> 
> 
> The  great and sad mistake of many people is to imagine that those whom  
> death
> has taken leave us.  They do not leave us.  They  remain.  Where are they?
> In darkness?  Oh no!  It is we who  are in darkness.  We do not see them
> because the dark cloud envelopes  us, but they see us.  Their beautiful 
> eyes,
> radiant with glory, are  fixed upon our tear-filled eyes.  Our dead are
> invisible to us, but  they are not  absent.
> 
> 
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