I told each of my brothers
and sisters separately that I needed them to come, that I could not do this
alone. They said when do you want us and I said right now. All of my sisters
were at my house by 3 AM, coming from the DC metropolitan area and my brothers
Tom and Dave who were in Mt. Airy Maryland and the Baltimore suburbs came the
next day. My youngest brother John came from Kansas soon after.
Marnie and Lou went over
to tell Lynn and Bill next door. They came over to join us immediately and
would stay at our side continually as we endured the wake and the funeral and
days and weeks beyond.
Being embraced by our
community of family and friends was a gift. We absolutely needed it to move us
from day to day.
It felt like they
literally carried us or showed us the way or did it for us or for so many days
after they fed us and expected nothing of us.
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