We lost her mother when she was 12. Mothers day is always hard. Last year she was 18 and gave me a card with Mother scratched out and Dad written in, and this letter. This year I got the letter out and took it to a frame and had it matted and framed so I will always have it.
I married my wife Bonnie right after high school. I lost her to melanoma a few months before our 29th wedding anniversary. We fought the cancer for 4 years. My daughter was 12 and my son was 22 when there mother died. I have since spent a lot of time educating myself about grief, what it is, and more importantly, what it isn't. I have made it a goal to make sure my daughter will be able to look back at her high school years as normal. I have also been working on legislation in my state to add bereavement to the Family Medical Leave Act.
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