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My mother often contributed to my speculations. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness, who might be showing appreciation anonymously. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE! 
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She reminded me of the times when I'd been riding my bike and our neighbor drove up with her car full of groceries and children. I always helped her unload the car and made sure the children didn't run into the road. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Or maybe the mystery sender was the old man across the street. I often retrieved his mail during the winter, so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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My mother did her best to foster my imagination about the gardenia. She wanted her children to be creative. She also wanted us to feel cherished and loved, not just by her, but by the world at large. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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When I was 17, a boy broke my heart. The night he called for the last time, I cried myself to sleep. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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When I awoke in the morning, there was a message scribbled on my mirror in red lipstick: "Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive." CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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I thought about that quotation from Emerson for a long time, and I left it where my mother had written it until my heart healed. When I finally went for the glass cleaner, my mother knew that everything was all right again. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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But there were some hurts my mother couldn't heal. A month before my high school graduation, my father died suddenly of a heart attack. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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My feelings ranged from simple grief to abandonment, fear, distrust and overwhelming anger that my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, the senior-class play and the prom - events that I had worked on and looked forward to. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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I even considered staying home to attend college instead of going away as I had planned because it felt safer. My mother, in the midst of her own grief, wouldn't hear of me missing out on any of these things. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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The day before my father died, she and I had gone shopping for a prom dress and had found a spectacular one -- yards and yards of dotted Swiss in red, white and blue. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Wearing it made me feel like Scarlett O'Hara. But it was the wrong size, and when my father died the next day, I forgot all about the dress. My mother didn't. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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The day before the prom, I found the dress waiting for me -- in the right size. It was draped majestically over the living room sofa, presented to me artistically and lovingly. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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I may not have cared about having a new dress, but my mother did. She cared how we children felt about ourselves. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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She imbued us with a sense of the magic in the world, and she gave us the ability to see beauty even in the face of adversity. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia -- lovely, strong, perfect, with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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My mother died when I was 22, only 10 days after I was married. That was the year the gardenias stopped coming. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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A very touching story, isn't it? Just my share to fill in the pages of ate Cat's birthday page! CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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      With much love from Lace & Fraz! CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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    Just wanna' greet you a Happy Mother's Day ate Cat & AMS! Friends are flowers in the garden of life.
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     Happy Mother's Day ate  Friends are flowers in the garden of life.
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Ate Roxy ... thanks for the nice blings ... thanks for being such a nice friend, thanks for decorating HVP's bakuran, thanks for caring! Friends are flowers in the garden of life.
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5/11/2008 6:25 pm |
 Hello AMS ... HAppy Mother's Day & of course Ate Cat ... happy happy mother's day! ...Thanks a lot for coming! Good to see you here!  Just call me ELZ
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5/11/2008 6:27 pm |
This is so  ... Happy mother's day ate Roxy! Thanks so much for the blings of Fraz & Mine too!   Just call me ELZ
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