I hope this letter finds you at peace. I realize that you haven\u2019t heard from me in a long time. In fact, I only realized a few days ago that you have been gone for thirty years now. Do you realize that\u2019s in my life, you\u2019ve been gone longer than you were here?<\/p>\n
Do you see Duane? Or Denis? Or Karen? Or Sandy? Mom is fine, she takes good care of herself and is as fiercely independent as ever. It\u2019 amazes me that she is 93 and is still taking care of herself, and Gery and Mike. Well, all of us really, one way or the other.<\/p>\n
One day, I will tell people how terrible liver cancer is. I will tell people that you succumbed to cancer, but you were diseased long before the cancer took your life.<\/p>\n
You will be happy to know that I no longer yell, It hurts more than it helps. I wish you taught me that, but I learned from the negative example. I learned to do the opposite.<\/p>\n
My memories are faulty and unpleasant. I don\u2019t really know if they are actual memories. I don\u2019t remember. I never think of you anymore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure I will see you so, or at least soon enough. Take care of yourself.<\/p>\n
Love,<\/p>\n
Laurie<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hope this letter finds you at peace. I realize that you haven\u2019t heard from me in a long time. In fact, I only realized a few days ago that you have been gone for thirty years now. Do you realize that\u2019s in my life,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[2639],"class_list":["post-55689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55825,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689\/revisions\/55825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}