Another Valentines Day

Another Valentines Day behind me. It and Sweetest Day were important days in our lives of my late wife and I. We would exchange cards and usually go out for dinner and maybe a movie.

About a week before Valentines Day this year, my daughter Danielle and I were in Krogers. Someone I know from in the community came up to us and asked me if I was buying a Valentines Day card for my wife. I tried not to look surprised and politely acknowledged her question by changing the subject because I did not want to embarrass her.

After she left the card area I asked Danielle if I heard what I think I heard in her question. The same person and I had a conversation one day not to long ago about Sandra's cancer and death.

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Men's Grief Blogspot said…
from Pat Link -aren't those "firsts" difficult? People can sometimes really, really take you back. Mine wasn't a first, but Ed and I lost a set of identical twin boys from my first pregnancy; I had received a dozen red roses from a dear, dear friend and I
remember the nurse's face to this day, some 39 yrs. ago, saying to me as she put me in the wheel chair to take me to the car to go home, "well atleast you're not going home empty handed!" I think that remark will stay with me forever.

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