"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Oh, Cheryl, my heart is with you. It is always worse on their birthday
> because you are wondering what they would be doing at that age. My
> daughter would have been 34 this past March. She died in 1996 when she was
> 21. I imagine that she would have been married with a family by now.
>
> We were watching Desperate Housewives yesterday and one of the characters
> had a daughter in a coma. She was talking about how she would trade
> everything to have just one more day as the mother of that girl. I was
> crying. I looked at DH and said: "that hurt" and he nodded and was crying,
> too.
>
> It is so hard to lose a child. I will cry for you.

thank you. I think of you, too, when I mourn. We share the pain. Birthdays
are hard. Double this year with my dad dying. My parents anniversary is on
my mom's birthday, the day after my son's birthday. Since she just lost
him, it will be a hard anniversary for her. We will go to the cemetery
together. My dad is buried next to my son.