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Dear Reader,
A reader wrote yesterday suggesting I should be handing out boxes of tissues along with this week's columns. She's right. Even my own tears have flowed while writing, but that's okay. The life lessons I hold most dear are the ones I've experienced in times of sadness. I can't ever really understand how someone else feels when they're grieving the loss of a job, a failed marriage, a friendship gone bad, or a death. Everyone needs to grieve in their own way and their own time. But because of the sadness I've experienced in my own life, when I sit down to write a sympathy card, or pick up the phone, I think back and remember, and those feelings help me choose the words that hopefully will be comforting for my friend to hear.
Cards and emails of sympathy are like love letters. Words written from the heart. Keepsakes, that even when I read years later, take me back and remind me how much I am loved.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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