Tim Richardson -> Stan Hardegree wrote:
 TR> On 12-20-08, Stan Hardegree said to Mimi Gallandt:


 SH>> Given some of the bottom-feeding scumbags who hang around here, I take a
 SH>> chance in saying this, but my son would have been 23 today.
 TR> Yesterday, my
 SH>> wife asked my to get some Christmas stuff out of the attic - which is
 SH>> accessible only from a small door in his room, a room she tries to
 TR> avoid.
 SH>> I asked that she at least stick her head in the attic door and show me
 SH>> what all she wanted me to get.  His Tonka trucks are up there and she
 TR> saw
 SH>> them. It was not a pleasant time.



 TR> Today I was looking for an adapter for a coax to use with my FM antenna. I
 TR> have small and medium coffee cans with various miscellanious `stuff' in
 TR> them
 TR> here and there on book shelves, etc.


 TR> One of the cans I picked up off the book shelf I emptied out on the kitchen
 TR> counter, and along with the `this and that' that fell out was a double
 TR> container for contact lenses.


 TR> I hadn't seen that since the day before my wife died. Opening it up I
 TR> found my
 TR> wife's contacts.


 TR> When she died and I was moving, I almost threw them out. But I kept them
 TR> (why
 TR> I don't know).

 TR> Oddly enough, the soak liquid was still in them, although one
 TR> was almost dry. Tomorrow, I'll stop at an eye outfit I know that sends old
 TR> glasses and stuff to Mexico, and matches it up with people who need it but
 TR> can't afford to buy it.

What a lovely generous thing for you to do.

 TR> I understand your wife's situation. Its the running into little pieces of
 TR> their lives at unexpected moments..........it can still hurt.

It's like I told him, the hurt never really goes all the way away, but over
time it does become bearable.

Merry Christmas

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Mimi

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