Dear Devon,
Today would have been your Gram's 63rd birthday. She died a year ago tomorrow, on Halloween - a favorite holiday. We were all with Gram last year, taking care of her and saying goodbye. Thank you, kid, you helped us all through it. We all love Gram, and miss her very much but are grateful that you two had some time together. One night in summertime Pemaquid, it was bedtime and you were supposed to be going to sleep but you heard Gram & Grampa; Mommy and we all ended up hanging out in Gram & Grampa's room, on the bed laughing with Gram.
This is daddy's wish for today: to always keep Betsy close to your heart, for the rest of your days, and please stay connected to all of us, keep this cosmic Betsy connection threaded, and then Devon will always have her grandmother close by, a guiding luminosity, our north star, a guardian ad litem for the lot of us, and then, "When she shall die take her and cut her out into stars and she shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." (WS)
Top Photo: Devon, Unc JohnnyCakes, Gram & Grampa in LR, Pemaquid house, early autumn 2007.
Bottom photo: Devon hanging in her crib with turtle, a gift from Gram.
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Thank you for writing this.
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