My mother passed very suddenly three months before hurricane Katrina hit, I was seventeen when it happened. Losing her was the worst thing that has ever happened to me and I held on tight to everything she left for me, possessions, and a beautiful horse mural she painted on my room wall which I have always treasured because she and I loved horseback riding. The hurricane destroyed a great deal of what she left behind including family photographs, her jewelry and her paintings and of course, the horse mural was hardly recognizable when I returned home. I've lost so much of her and it kills me, but I feel as though without her and so much of what she left behind I'm beginning to forget her! I'm gradually forgetting things about my mother and it makes me cry to think about how I'll recall her perhaps five years from now. I love her and never want to forget her. And I feel like so much of my life has fallen apart since last year, I just want to be happy and normal, how can I be?
2006-11-30
13:25:47
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susie q
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