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[KMOD]

1. You taught me how to love,

What it's of, what it's of.

You never said to much, but still you showed the way, and I knew, from watching you.

[KMOD]

2. Hey, you win some, and you lose some

I guess this one was

insert The Gong Show

{Goooonnnngggg'}

[auntAgonist]

3. Music of my growing up years! Love Bread and this song. Canadian Group. Good stuff. thanks! n/t

[UglyGreed]

4. This time of year

is hard on me because this was when my mother went into the hospital. It's going to be sixteen years next month when she passed away, feels like yesterday.

[roguevalley]

9. my folks were my heroes and my mother my soulmate

she had lunch with me at the house, ate a hamburger I made, then got up to go to the kitchen with her dishes. She cried out and fell from an aneurism. She died shortly after with her last words my name.

2007, a year that will live in infamy. Ten months after my dad, my mom goes. You will find only time is your friend. I hug everyone on this list. I know what you feel.

[KMOD]

12. Oh, roguevalley,

I'm so very sorry.

I was with my mom when she passed as well.

[roguevalley]

16. Its a blessing isn't it? I treasure that I was there.

Hugs back to you and your mom. I know how you feel.

[Tom_Foolery]

20. My mom died in 2007, too...

My sister and I held her hands on the final day. When she took her last breath, it was as if my whole life ended. I was a big mama's
boy, and I will be until the day I die.

[UglyGreed]

27. I'm so sorry to

hear that, must of been so hard. I'm speechless, all I can offer is a heartfelt

[KMOD]

11. Hugs to you UG.

It will be 20 years for me in February.

[orleans]

17. 20 years---!

this autumn it was five years for me without her

i never imagined i could survive without her
it's been the toughest, worst years of my life

the reality of her no longer in my day-to-day is almost absurd!
even now--after five years

i know time helps us -- we begin adapting to a different way of life (but it can take soooooo painfully long for us to acclimate to the new "normal&quot

she was my best friend & soulmate & neither of us were emotionally prepared for this parting, however brief it may be.

and yet...how wonderful and amazing to have been loved so very much
and how wonderful and amazing to know that i have loved someone so deeply

[KMOD]

18. a big hug to you orleans,

I don't want you to think that it never gets better. It does. It's just different.

My mom still comes to me in dreams. It's weird though. She's either on the other side of the room,
where I can't get to her, or I'm waiting for her to come home, and she doesn't before I wake, or I see
her passing in her car, waving at me, but I can't talk or hug her.

But she is there when I still need her. She's in me. So many times through my trials and tribulations of
being a mom, I thought, "what would mom do?" The answer would always come. The calm would come.

The smiles come now, more and more. The happy memories come now, more and more. Friends and relatives
share so many good things, that it warms my heart, and I feel her, with each memory.

Your mom is always going to be with you. She is in your heart and conscious. Let her guide you. That's what helps.

[UglyGreed]

26. Thank you

KMOD Time does not heal all wounds, all we can do is remember the good times.

[Tom_Foolery]

5. Great song! Miss you, mom! n/t

[Scruffy Rumbler]

6. Thanks KMOD...

Today would have been my mother's 81st birthday. She died in August. She loved Bread.

A song from the 8 track she would play on rides...

And another of her favorites:

[KMOD]

13. I love your Mom's musical taste.

It's funny to try to explain 8 tracks to the kids today.

My mom had a friend named Tom. Whenever he visited I would sit in his car and listen to Croce 8 tracks.

[orleans]

7. i miss her everyday

"the finest years i ever knew
were all the years i had with you"

"i would give everything i own just to have you back again"


omg-- so true about the way i feel about my mom

i miss her everyday

[KMOD]

14. Those lyrics are so true and

heavy hitting.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

19. Right there with you, orleans! nt

[LiberalLoner]

8. +1. Miss you, Mom.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Soneto a Mamá

It's not that I've left because I've forgotten
Your scent of thyme and kitchen.
From afar, they say that things are clearer,
that it is not the same to walk than it is to wander.

And I've learned that love has green eyes,
that a deck of cards has four suits,
that what is lost never returns
and that the tide rises and then falls.

I've learned that simplicity is not the same as foolishness,
that one should not confuse value with price,
and that a feast can be any morsel

That the horizon is light and the path a kiss,
It's not that I've left because I've forgotten
it's just that I lost my way back,

Mama ...

No es que no vuelva, porque me he olvidado
de tu olor a tomillo y a cocina.
De lejos, dicen que se ve más claro,
que no es igual quién anda y quién camina.

Y supe que el amor tiene ojos verdes,
que cuatro palos tiene la baraja,
que nunca vuelve aquello que se pierde
y la marea sube y luego baja.

Supe que lo sencillo no es lo necio,
que no hay que confundir valor y precio,
y un manjar puede ser cualquier bocado

si el horizonte es luz y el rumbo un beso,
No es que no vuelva porque me he olvidado:
es que perdí el camino de regreso,

Mamá...

[KMOD]

15. Hugs to everyone in this thread.

I got a little sentimental last night. An uncle of mine had passed along a refurbished photo of my mother, from when she was a teen.

The resemblance that not only I, but my children, and especially my oldest daughter, share with her was astonishing.

[Tom_Foolery]

21. Boys II Men--"A Song for Mama"...

[BarbaRosa]

22. I've been having kind of a rough morning,

Now that the decorations are up, it's really sinking in that this will be my first Christmas without my Mom, she passed last July.

It all just piled up on me. One of our dear friend's Mom just passed, bringing it all to mind.

Thinking about John Lennon, listening to 'Empty Garden'

And to top it all off I can't stop wondering what kind of damage the new Koch Brother's Congress is about to inflict.

[archiemo]

23. That hit like a ton of bricks. My mom passed too soon and I've never been the same.

Hugs to you all and I hope you each can smile with a memory you have of your mom that belongs only to you.

[Skittles]

24. count yourself as fortunate to feel that way

sad but true

[easychoice]

25. Miss ya MOM...