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- From: larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Love you forever (was Re: Hormonally Enhanced
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 22:51:29 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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- At my grandmother's funeral (last August) I read three two poems and a
- slightly modified form of the "As long as I'm living, my mommy you'll
- be" verse from that book ("Granny" substituted for "Mommy"). The
- Vachel Lindsey and Thomas Hardey poems were intellectual hits, with
- many requests from relatives for copies (especially "Written in a Year
- When Many of My People Died"), but the "Love you forever" quatrain is
- what really turned on the water works.
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- I discovered that book and gave it to my sister-in-law right after
- her mother (my husband's mother) died. I guess it was insensitive, because
- she was mad at me about it for awhile. (I don't work that way: I like it
- when fiction or stories mirror my own tragedies because it helps me safely
- exercise my excess of emotion.) She seems to have forgiven me now, so
- all is well. You never know how to be good to people in pain.
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- Tracy Larrabee larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu
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