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Sara, you are fortunate to have had your DM for so long but the end always comes and it doesn't get any easier. When our DF died 11 years after DM my brother and I shared with each other the feeling of now being orphans. That sensation took me by surprise as it did him. There was no one left to provide the love and guidance that was always forthcoming from our parents. Now I'm that elder of the family and don't feel quite adequate to the job. Oh well, nobody's asking for advice and I'm doing my best not to offer it.

Rosey, it looks like you've got a Marley there. That came to mind at Wal-Mart yesterday when I walked by a huge bin full of DVDs on sale for $5. Marley was right on top. I've read it and enjoyed it as it could have been about my Molly (the dog of my heart as you said about the late great pooch whose name I can't spell of yours when you used that phrase). Marley and Molly were from the same mold except luckily Molly was not phobic about storms. You old timers on the board have read many a tale about Molly's adventures. Back to the DVD; the younger of my two step grands whom I really don't know personally, isn't much of a reader like her older sister and I thought of her immediately and picked said DVD up. DD has responded that while they have seen Marley in a theater, they don't have the DVD and she thinks the 11 year old Lauren would love it. Now I may have to go back and buy another for me. Perhaps I'll send along my copy of the book and she might one day read it and learn what her older sister learned when I sent her Mary Poppins unabridged with the original illustrations. After reading that the family re-watched the DVD they had and Sarah was quite vocally critical of the spots where the movie deviated from the original. She's a pleasure to shop for. She asked for Oliver Twist for Christmas and before I could get it on the list, she'd already read it in it's original form. No wonder she is in a gifted program at school. When DD told me to scratch O.T. I responded that it is fortunate that Mr. Dickens was such a prolific author. This child is, by the way, just 13. I was much more like Lauren; just wasn't interested. I know now that I have something of a disability when it comes to reading making hard work of it. I read more now than I ever did before except law school.

By the way; to all insomniacs! If you can't sleep just get a copy of the Internal Revenue Code and cuddle up with that. Cures insomnia without fail. My sleep specialist says the medicare guidelines on CPAP use and Obama care do the same thing for her.

Things to do. TTFN
Jane

posted by Jane in NC @ 9:39 AM