My wife and I got married in the Fall of 2007 in Hawaii, and the travel agent who helped us arrange everyone’s flights was sort of inefficient. Mom sent me this email a few weeks before the wedding. From: Gagne, Kathleen To: Gagne, David; Gagne, Jennifer Subject: Maui Flight Information!!! Sent: September 27, 2007 […]
Dear Mom, It’s Sunday, September 16th. I’ll be 59 next Saturday. I’ve been spending a lot of time with Donna Omer — looking for a dress for David’s wedding. I had lost 21 lbs, but now I’m back up. I truly can’t imagine being at Dic’s for my birthday without you there. I miss you […]
Hi, Mom, You can’t imagine how much I miss you or how much I wish I could have spent more time with you. I think of you every day, especially at 7:00 pm when I used to call you. My heart is broken, and, losing you, I feel as if I’ve lost rock, my balance, […]
September 2, 2007 Dear Everett, Before it gets to late to do so, I would like to propose some changes in our Member configuration for this year. We have some options, I hope, still available to us. For example, I would like to offer two full-time slots back to Volunteer Florida. (It has been […]
While combing through mom’s old computer hard drive in the middle of March, 2013, I found a folder of letters mom had written after her mother — my maternal grandmother — died. “Nana Anna” died on May 4th, 2007 and it just completely devastated mom. It’s a cruel fact that mom died under very similar […]
I found this letter on mom’s old computer hard drive. The file KATHLEEN A.doc was created on June 16th, 2007. I don’t know who Ms. Jackson is, but I assume it is someone that worked at Indigo Manor, the nursing home where my maternal grandmother died. Anna Sophia Albanese (aka “Nana”, “Nana Anna”, “Nana from […]
April 1, 2007 Dear Jeff, I have asked Deeb-Paul and Shannon Kitchen to take Mocha in to be boarded if you have room. My mother is gravely ill in Daytona Beach, and I need to get there as early as possible tomorrow morning. I don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’ll keep in […]
I found a bunch of files on mom’s old Dell hard drive in the middle of March of 2013. One was a letter written to two of her friends (from Americorps, I assume) regarding caring for her pets while she was dealing with the declining health of her own mother. She saved it at 9:41 […]
In early 2007 mom started trying to get in shape for the millionth time. She struggled with her weight her entire life and tried countless diets and Weight Watchers and plans from late-night TV infomercials, etc. I always would tell her that she simply needed to get some regular exercise, and finally she started doing […]