My dear Cousin Maria, I am sad that you have left so suddenly. I appreciated your particular way of expressing yourself. You lived how you wanted to.... Unapologetically so. I've borrowed the words of this poem to help express my thoughts of you leaving:- "Don’t think of Maria as gone away Her journey’s just begun, Life holds so many facets This earth is only one. Just think of her as resting From the sorrows and the tears In a place of warmth and comfort Where there are no days and years. Think how she must be wishing That we could know today How nothing but our sadness Can really pass away. And think of her as living In the hearts of those she touched… For nothing loved is ever lost And she was loved so much." Sleep In Peace my dear Cousin Maria. Love you loads. We miss you. Deseree.xxx

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I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.