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[color="#9900ff"]Thinking of my lovely brother in law Willie. Who died on the 5th of December 2006.You went too soon.We will miss you forever and always.

Love you lots cuddle cuddle xxx

Sue

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MY DEAR WILL[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
thankyou sue my sister for posting about our will.xx
just to say will, me aaron and sam are always guided every secound of every day by your strength and inspiration you left behind.its 6 months now and we know you are our guardian angel, every day we have got through, we have done it for you!!we will always do it for you!! you dont realise what you went through has been our stepping stone going through our grieving process,you coped for 30 or more years!
you were and still are a beautiful soul and now you are set free from your pain.we know you are having loads of healing we know you miss us like we miss you, but you know and we know
WE WILL NEVER WALK ALONE!!
we are still a family of 4,your spirit has not left our hearts we carry you inside every single day.
you are our reason for doing,and making you proud of us,making you smile like you used too.[sm=nature-smiley-008.gif]
[sm=FIFangel.gif]you were an angel here and you stillan angel!! bless you will for being such an inspirational,caring,supportive husband and a lovely, supportive, caring,sensational dad.thankyou for being that beautiful star we see every night making sure we see you so bright.
love you so much always have always did always will
love your fairytrish and goodlooking aaron and supersam
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[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]Happy birthday Mam, for today, the 28th June. [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]

She left us suddenly and unexpectedly on 5th May this year, and is sorely missed by us all.

I hope you and Dad are together again, and who knows, you might even have him dancing!

With all my love,
Amber

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To all in this thread,

Hope all your sadness will turn to fond and happy memories of those who have passed on. I feel sad reading about dear Will and sending love and light to Fairytrish and Sunrise.

My dear dad died suddenly in 1992, I was just over my 21st birthday. I still find it hard. We have had further sudden deaths in our family which seem so unfair. I would like to tell my dad that I love him to bits, miss him loads and that his 2 grandsons know all about him and the wonderful dad and man that he was.

Love and blessings to all that post on this thread, its hard sometimes to let go.

Rachel

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Dear Amber,

Apologies, I felt I left you out of my previous post. Sorry to hear that your poor mam passed on recently. I am sure she is with your mum and is happy, take it that they were a dancing couple. Remember them dancing together.

With heartfelt love & blessings.

Rachel

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Hi Rachel,
It's OK, I didn't feel left out.

When I asked for this thread to be started, it was my desire to have somewhere where we could remember our loved ones on those special anniversaries or whenever they popped into our thoughts and we wanted to share those thoughts somewhere. Yes, initially when our loved ones move on to the next stage of their journey we'll be posting here with sadness, but over time that will turn to sharing happy memories. And I think it's important to remember those times - that's how people live on, in our hearts and our minds.

I like to talk about my mam and dad, my memories of them, it keeps them alive for me, but my sister and brother find this too hard to do at the moment. Not really surprising I guess, as my dad died on 14th December 2006and my mam died on 5thMay 2007, both were sudden and unexpected, and we all cope in our own ways. My way is to talk, but that is not their way, and that is fine.

...take it that they were a dancing couple. Remember them dancing together.

That was an in-joke, mentioned at both my dad's funeral and my mam's - my mam loved dancing, but my dad had to have several drinks before he'd hit the dance floor! Thing is, he was quite a good dancer, he just didn't have the confidence.I like to think that on the other side he's found the confidence to dance and that they're dancing together.

As always, it's the "firsts" that hit home - the first Father's Day without your dad, I'd always thought is was just commercialism, but now I'd love to be able to send a Father's Day card. And now my mam's birthday, when I'd usually send her flowers.

I have lit a candle, one that should burn all day,and sang happy birthday, and I'm sure she was there as I did it.

With love to all,
Amber

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to my nan emphysema..I was 8 I saw too much...23rd june 1988.I still see you but my brother still misses you so much we all do. just to say we love you very much.
we miss you.

Mardigras

blessings to you all and comfort for your loss[sm=hidesbehindsofa.gif]im the one behind the couch offering the hugs of support.

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[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]I would very much like to say a big BOO and I LOVE YOU to my mum Mandy who sadly left us on 28th August 1994.[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]

She was not my birth mother... in fact there was only a 12 year gap between us so in some ways she was more like a sister[sm=love-smiley-009.gif], but she made up for all the pain of being ripped away from the woman who gave me birth. [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]She was an earth angel and in my mind the best person ever to have walked the earth! [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]She was, is and always will be my greatest inspiration.. along with my dad terry who i am so blessed to have in my life!!!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]

Times have been really tricky lately but I have felt mum[sm=love-smiley-009.gif] around soooo much - through songs randomly playing that we used to sing and dance around the living room together, through the smell of her perfume, through my best friend taking up smoking to persuade me to give up... just as she did to my dad, through little messages conveyed by the angels that only we would undrestand. i know she is right here by my side and I know that the absolute miracle in my liferecently is largely down to her!!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif] It has been a tough year for me - I hit 30, an age that she never made, but I realise that now her spirit is kinda liveing through me... and that propels me ever onwards and upwards!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
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[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]So much love to you Mum[sm=love-smiley-009.gif].... you will NEVER be forgotten!!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]

[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]Much love and very big hugs to everyone who posts on here... past present and future.
Losing our loved ones is always so hard, but in reality they really are never lost. They remain forever through our love and memories... treasure them always![sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]

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I love this verse.

my mums best friend gave me a little book with it in on the day of my mums funeral and I kept it by my bedside for years.

Recently my cousin lost her husband tragically in a motorbike accident after only 10 months of marriage and I knew it was time to pass that little book on.

But here is the verse.... I hope it brings comfort and faith to others too XXX[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=hug.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=1kis.gif][sm=angel_sm030.gif]

Death is Nothing at all



Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
whatever we were to each other
that we still are
call me by my old familiar name
speak to me in the easy way
which you always used
put no difference in your tone
wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together
pray smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
without the trace of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
it is the same as it ever was
there is unbroken continuity
why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you
somewhere very near
just around the corner
All is well

Henry Scott Holland
(1847-1918) Canon of St Paul's Cathedral

Would like to remember a special person, Ger, who left us suddenly last year. Missed by many but has left so many fond memories. Still around to lend a hand when needed.

Always in our hearts, love & light Ger, God bless.

To our dear father. 14 years today since you left this world. We still miss you each day and love you dearly, but know your spirit is happy and free. Thank you for coming back to watch over us, your messages take the edge off us missing you.

Love and hugs,

Your little girls xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sadly missed, but never forgotten.

To my Gran and Grandad, two most cherished people, who, are sadly missed. Even though you are still looking after us, all, we miss the love and jokes we shared.
A sad day back in 5th October 1989, when my much loved Gran passed over, and another on the 6th October 2000., but we are all happy they are back where they belong in each others arms bonded by true love.

Till we meet again, I will always talk to you, and think about you both.

With much love and hugs.

xxxxxxSweet onexxxxxxxxx!!!

Too young, too soon!!

My dear Fiona, taken from us in such a short time, never got to see your 21st. with us. I do hope you had your own celebration.
We still miss your warm, loving smile and cute laugh, that touched everyones heart that it met.
I am so glad we met, as you have touched my heart, and it will never forget the most beautiful and down to earth person.

We hope that you are free with your horses, you much loved.

We will never forget the day of the 7th September 2001, when you were called to be a angel, for our master.

Sending much love and warmness for the golden girl.xx Till we meet again!!xxx

Just a piece I have written to mark a very sad but very special time for me. My son died very suddenly and violently in an accident and this is a short piece about bereavement and trauma, as a tribute to him and about my healing, recovery and growth x x

Morris The Monster
Morris is a monster, he came to live with us in 1989, uninvited, without even a glance, barging his way in, ten feet high with big claws and teeth drooling, all powerful beyond his limits. In the early days I dared not even catch his eye, he used to just stare from his window, watching and waiting. He lived in his den behind the great oak door, there he waited for his chance to tear it down, break free, but it always held fast, it was stronger than he.

If you have never cared for a monster then believe me, they are very difficult chaps to keep. They moan constantly at night always trying to get out. After all, whilst sometimes there’s just no other place to keep one; is it really fair to keep such an animal in a cage? They need constant care and are always hungry, always demanding more. You must never, ever forget to lock the door.
Morris hated that cage and of course, it wouldn’t keep him forever. One day when I was cooking dinner he got out. Now monsters are not really bad, they will only hurt you if you let them but this day Morris cut me down. I had to catch him, we tried everywhere to find him, but just you try to catch a marauding monster! I could feel him everywhere; he hid round every corner, behind every tree. He screamed from passing cars, he hid waiting within wardrobe doors, he took great pleasure to jump on me from wherever he could but I found him, I caught him at last and hung on for dear life. .

I had to get to know him after all such a commitment would mean caring for Morris for many years to come. So just how do you make friends with Morris? Just how do you look him squarely in the eye?
He needed to be understood, challenged and nurtured, he was not going to go away, just ignoring him wouldn’t work. Monsters will eventually do as they are told, they just want to be in charge, but they really need to know just who’s boss, they need time to understand how to live together, they need to adjust to their new environment, They just can’t run off just whenever they want. I had to be brave, I had to stand up to him and try to understand how to control him so that he could become my friend...

You may like to take Morris for walks; short walks at first but with a good strong lead, because hang on! They may dig down and down and drag you under to deep dark dungeons, so deep you never know; they may climb and take you so high to wonderful places you had forgotten existed. They may drag you screaming through dark tunnels so long, that the light appears to be a small dot at the end but as he leads you through, it may get bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter. But above all they need to be understood and trusted before they learn how to be your friend.

Albeit a strange relationship, Morris did become my friend. He kept me safe and comforted in this strange new world, after all who would ever break in with Morris on the loose! He was a link with my past, very tangible, very real. He fired my need to survive and taught me a great deal about myself and others. He taught me the message within all living things, about the beauty within and the beauty without and there are many that now need our help. You served me well Morris mate, but it’s time to let you go, to release you, to set you free to go to help someone else. It’s not just fair to keep you anymore. It will however be very sad, very final to see you go.
I am standing in our special place, looking out, so high above the world below and now, as I step out, as I am setting you free; .......a whole new world awaits

in loving memory of mark incher 19 who died in a motorbike accident 5th of september 2007 we all miss you and we will never forget you

shaz

Thinking of you on your birthday

Thinking of my brother in law Willie. It is your 43rd birthday today, Even though you are not here. I want to wish you a happy birthday. Thinking of you always.

Lots of love
Susan xxxxx

happy birthday my will

happy birthay my will for yesterday, hope you are loving that pink balloon we sent to heaven.hope you joined us down the beach and had your normal swim!!
love you so much birthday boy
love your fairytrish and aaron and sam
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My Mum

Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the death of my Mum..

Due to circumstances in her life, she felt that she could no longer cope and took her own life. This was 25 years ago.. I have learned to cope and to stop blaming myself but I still miss her so much.

I am a little late in "All Souls Day" 2nd November.

Just to take a moment to think of all the souls of our dear family, friends, work colleagues etc that have passed on and are still here to guide us on our journey on earth, a thank you to all of them and a special thought and big hug to those who have recently lost loved ones.

Love & blessings,

Rachel

will redmond

to you my will where has this year gone.it only feels like yesterday you were gone.my love for you is the same each day and in every way..the boys are so proud that you were their dad..
on wednesday dec 5th we will be thinking of you and we will be letting a shower of tears unfold ,but will try to raise a smile for you to enjoy.
like i say will. everything we do we do it for youxxxxxxxxx
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my dear Dad who passed over on 18th November 2007. I will take long time to get over it but am glad you are with Mum now and 100%fit.

Amethystfairyx

My dad passed over on 1st December 2007. We are heart broken. We didn't get to say goodbye, we didn't get to tell him how much we loved and cared for him. 🙁

My dad died 8th December 2000 - I miss him, I can remember it as if it was yesterday but it feels like a lifetime since I saw him.

For my dad, who died suddenly and unexpectedly a year ago today.

We never had an easy relationship but while he was alive I always had the hope that we could still turn things around. When he died I didn't just lose him, I lost any chance of the relationship that I always hoped for.

Rest in peace dad.

With love,
Amber

in lovein momory of mark antony incher who died sadley on 5th september 2007 i can never forget that night when the phone rang and your brother answered and started shoutin no not mark after all you was the baby.we never expected you to go so soon but soon after u had gone you called for your auntie who is now at peace thank you for filling our lifes with such laughter you will be missed and i hope you still like your motor bikes love you and allways thinkin of you your family xx if your ever around watching us please stop by as we miss you so much xxx

For my mam, who died suddenly and unexpectedly on 5th May 2007, less than 6 months after my dad.

Happy Mothers Day mam.

With love,
Amber

In loving memory of my dear Nan who died 14th February 1990, your name lives on with me

Still miss you after all these years

Cis your name sake

To Ann

My wee sister, only 22 years you where here and how you made me laugh!

Yes Im the older but we looked after each other in our own way, which is what we both needed. Me giving you big words and filling forms out for you, and you making sure that I knew how to give and receive hugs no matter how much i didnt like to!

I know that you look out for me, you have sent me obvious enough signs that even me with me lack of common sense can decifer. Thank you.

I miss our chats so much there a bit one sided these days.

I love you for many things and you know them all......

Thank your for our time together it really was a gift, with love always......

Your big sis.

in memory of my two brothers passed away when only 3 and 6 months old, missing you both so much

love your sister mwah

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