hey.. it's me... don't know how to start this... if I start with a happy post, I'll most likely finish it in a miserable mood...
so I'll do it the other way around...
since I do not want to go through all that pain all over again, I will post the exact thing that I sent to my CR brother, Robert, a.k.a. Aki-chan... and I want him to know that I am extremely grateful for everything he's done for me and that I'll be his Nee-san for as long as there will be internet.. ^_^ (and I'm pretty sure the sun will die out before the internet does...)
here it goes..."oh boy... how do I start this....
I had the perfect family... loving... united.... cared for each other and helped each other... it was perfect... though at the time I didn't realize that....
and then it happened... my mom died when I was 11... 5 days after my birthday... flu... got sick... got checked into the hospital... died within 3 days... the virus had attacked the heart muscle... doctors said they had never seen anything like that...
never went to see her at the hospital... though I guess that was for the better... cause this way I can remember her as the lively, loving, happy woman that she was.... instead of remembering her lying on a hospital bed...
never got a chance to say goodbye.... to tell I love her... according to my cousin, before she was taken to the hospital, I was upset cause she was feeling too sick to make me a birthday cake...
and people say "well at least you were old and you can remember her...." but I can't.... I can't remember her voice... her smell... I just remember her always smiling face...
my most precious memory of her is going to my parents' bedroom every Sunday morning and jump into their bed in the middle... and stay there and giggle and laugh.... and then my dad would go and make breakfast and I'd remain in bed with my mom and I'd just cuddle in her arms....
and I can remember her at a dance festivity sitting at the balcony and waving my favorite stuffed animal (a little green dog with only one eye :D) down at me cause I had asked her to... I still have that on video tape...
it was so sudden... she had me when she was 38 and I doubt they wanted a 3rd kid so late... still...she would've moved mountains for me....
it's been 10 years and it still feels like yesterday... the phone call from the nurse at 6 a.m.... my brother screaming...(he answered the phone) my dad crying... my sister was at work... she suffered 5 heart attacks...the 6th one was fatal...
I still wonder every day what my life would be like if she were still here...I miss her so much...:("
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