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Love;
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Thanks Dad. This email came at just the right time.<\/p>\n
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I would like to take a moment to say sorry to you. I have being doing a lot of reading (I’m currently reading a great book called Rising Strong) and in it it talks about how we have expectations for other people and then resent them for not living up to them and then dealing with the lose of those unmet expectations. I’ve started to learn that expectations are resentments waiting to happen.<\/div>\n
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I’m sorry that I had expectations for you as a dad that I didn’t share with you, and I’m sorry that I got mad and blamed you for not living up to those expectations.<\/div>\n
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I know now that you were doing the best you could with the knowledge you had at the time.<\/div>\n
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I hope this email doesn’t come too late for us to try to rebuild our relationship.<\/div>\n
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I love you and am grateful to have you in my life, as you are.<\/div>\n
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Please forgive the time it took for me to learn these lessons for myself.<\/div>\n
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May 2018<\/div>\n
I wanted this Mother’s Day to be special.\u00a0 Mary spent her last eight days with me at Hyco Lake with my best friend, Mary Mount. Daughter Mary really enjoyed the lake view.<\/div>\n
I took a grapefruit half\u00a0and put in a\u00a0candle, surrounded by the flowers that were blooming when she was here. I included a Maple Leaf for Canada and a smidgen of her ashes and set it afloat at dusk with the candle lit. My friend Mary and I watched and played Ode to Joy on my phone until they drifted out of site. It took hours and was very heartwarming.<\/div>\n
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I also included a candlelight for my Mom and Mary Mount’s Mom. I think I will make it a tradition.<\/div>\n
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It was a year ago that I reached out to Mary to let her know I was in her corner just prior to Mother’s Day. It was the first Mother’s Day following Clara being adopted and I knew she would have some emotion around it. That email changed both our lives. She immediately wrote back … <\/p>\n