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Dear Reader,
Today I made a holiday call to a friend. "What have you been up to? How is everyone?" were her first questions. We hadn't seen each other in quite a while, so I brought my friend up to date with the idle chitchat of everyday things, but in the back of my mind I knew eventually we would have to get around to talking about it.
She's my age--an old girlfriend from high school. Fifty-two years old, has a wonderful husband, an eleven year old son, and she has ovarian cancer.
Why does there have to be bad news at Christmas?
'Don't want to hear no bad news.' That's how I'm feeling today. The holiday lights are twinkling, kids are writing letters to Santa, 'Oh why can't there be a time out?' But even in the midst of the holidays, life keeps going on and sometimes it comes to an end.
Last year was the first Christmas after my mother died and when I think about it today, it reminds me that families are coming together this holiday season, but some are not. Someone is missing.
My friend and I talked for quite a while. The conversation was amazing. Everything she talked about had to do with the care and concern of someone else. "You know, Suzanne, I'm the one with cancer, but it's so much harder on the people around me."
And at the end of our conversation she said that one of the things that troubled her the most was how useless she felt--because she didn't have anything to give anymore.
"Oh, but you're wrong," I assured her. "Today you've given me such a wonderful gift."
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
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