she has slipped away
cancer wins another war
and I've lost my friend
within, my heart is tore

pulled from #935 in completed poems... today I lost another friend to non-hodgkin's lymphoma. sometimes life just isn't fair........... heartbroken, ginny.
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no words
except "I'm sorry"
will do................hang in there, hun, ~Q~
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I am so sorry ginny, my heart feels for you {{{ginny}}}......alice
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thanks ~Q~ and alice. Today is a sad day indeed. (by the way, I should've said that the previous poem was #935 in haiku 2). Janet truly lived by the words of this Chinese proverb, which she quoted in all of her correspondence..... "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." Today I feel like cursing the darkness, but instead, at 3:00 EST, I will light a candle in honor of Janet's life - along with hundreds of others, all over the world, whose lives she touched. Damn this disease.....ginny

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Indeed, 3:00 it is Ginny... and what a wonderful quote to live by, we all should. ~Q~
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it's nice she had friends who honor her. i hope when my time comes it is considered a loss....david
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(((GINNY))) What can I say but that it must be great to have warm & wonderful
friends like you. I know your friend is in a more beautiful place than this
"proving ground" we call earth. God knows we hurt, so, after the little cursing
ask forgiveness--He's very accepting & forgiving.--LUVYA-GrandmaThing--May
you know love!!

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Forgive me for interrupting here, but "ask forgiveness"? Why on earth would she need to "ask forgiveness", GrandmaThing?.....anon
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even Jesus grieved (and maybe even cursed alittle) after his friend (Lazarus) passed on.
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Ginny,
I wish to express my heart felt sympathies as well. I am living with my
parents and watching my mother die of Cancer it is very difficult for me.
opto
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(((opto)))... I'm so sorry for what you're going through... and I thank you for your kind thoughts. GT, although I'm not quite sure what I should be asking forgiveness for, I dearly thank you for the hugs! :)... much love, ginny
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ginny
The hug is appreciated. Thank you. I'd forgotten how healing this site
could be.
opto
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Ginny & others:: Every time I start cursing I'm afraid I sin with this old
mouth of mine. Maybe you folks don't need to but I always find myself going
"over the edge" and needing to ask His forgiveness again, and again, and
again. But He is always there at my worst point of weakness.--GrandmaThing