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8/20/2015 4 Comments

Grandparents Never Die

PictureMy grandparents' house on Five Points
Every year, on August 18 and 19, I spend time thinking about two very special people in my life: my maternal grandparents.  Jack and Lucy Moore were very special to me, a very important source of love and support when I was growing up.  Grandma died on August 18, 1983, and Grandpa died on August 19, 1979.  Even today, I wake up and have to remind myself they are gone.  I think that is normal.  Of course I never forget they are gone.  Yet, I know on some mystical level, they are always with me.

They were married 31 years when Grandpa passed.  He had suffered a form of Alzheimer's back before much was known about it.  He basically had stopped talking, yet he always lit up when one of us walked into the room.  He spent the last several years in a nursing home.  Taking care of him nearly killed my grandmother.  Even so, she never got over the guilt of placing him there.  Yet there was always love there between them.  They were good together.

And they were good to me.  I owe a lot of who I am today to them.  I hear their voices in my head all the time.  That is how I know they are still around.   Love never dies.  

So today, as I prepare to once again move on after observing some time in meditative reflection, I pick up their smiles, senses of humor and contribution to my life, and say thank you.




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Debbie Popravsky
8/20/2015 12:00:45 am

you loved your Grandparents like I loved mine. Grandparents are such an important part of a child's life. My Grandma just died 3 years ago she was 103. I was lucky to have her she was sharp as can be to the end and telling us all what to do. My grandpa, who I adored, died in 1984 at 84,yrs old. I didn't know my maternal grandparents because they died when my Mom was a child. Oh by the way I hear all of them speak to me, especially my Grandma, if I do something really stupid Lol.

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BETTE
8/20/2015 03:02:37 am

WHAT A BLESSING YOU HAVE THIS MEMORY SO DEEPLY
ENGRAINED IN YOU SO AS TO BRING UP PLEASANT THOUGHTS
ABOUT THEM FREQUENTLY

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Tara
8/20/2015 03:53:57 pm

Thank you for sharing. Grandparents are indeed special. There is no relationship like it. Blessings friend.

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Chris
8/21/2015 10:05:58 am

I'm a little jealous

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