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Larger Than LifeI havent been around efx much lately. My mom, who I call Fig, has been very sick, and in the hospital,and some of the time on a respirator. Because of this iit seems like large portions of many days have blurred into just seconds of time..As far as I am concerned, there is not one coincidence, so when I received a DVD of the filming of many years past family Thanksgiving celebrations from my cousin just as my mom was getting so sick, I wasnt surprised. There she was in those films.. She seemed so much larger than life..Young, funny, beautiful, so very very alive, as opposed to the picture of her now, frail, weak, and so very very small....an eternal spark of life in a hospital bed. As I watched that video,and I thought of my Fig, I remembered all the things she has done for me and for others, all the people she has touched, the children and grandchildren she has left, the laughter, the pain, the sheer uncompromising force of her incredible will. I realized how much larger than life her life has been Now ,when I look at her in that bed, so small, so frail , but still fighting hard, I am thankful. I am thankful for what she has given me. That unstoppable, unkillable, love, that undying power of faith, the ability to laugh beyond all odds. I realize that she, in living larger than life for so long, in leaving behind so much love to carry on, when she is gone, that somehow, now, her life has become larger than her Thank you Fig.. I am so lucky.. I love you always.. 08:13 - 2007-Mar-11 - post comment
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