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This might seem hard to believe, but today is the 10th anniversary of my mother's death. Kathy placed a notice in today's Spectator and I've copied it here:

DEAN - Colleen Ten years. If time was measured by the heart, then you left us just a moment ago. Love, pieces of your heart.

It amazes me that so much time has passed already. I'm sure Kathy is still finding recipe's that mom clipped from the paper and promptly tucked away, never to be tested.

I think she'd be happy to know that we're in touch like this, though it'd take a special kind of magic to help her understand how we were doing it, and to assure her that blogging isn't a dirty word...

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Kathleen said…
Pat could you image mom tring to figure out how to do this. There isn't enough kleenex for the tears we would shed from laughing with her trying to show her how to do this.
Kathy
p.s. She would be having the best time learning about everyone.
9 February 2007 at 14:15
patdean said…
I don't know, given the struggle she had just operating the TV remote, I don't think it would've been fair to tax her with this blog business.

You'd have had to read it to her over the phone...
9 February 2007 at 14:50
robbyblogger said…
Mom would not need a computer to keep up on everyone. She would have told us what everyone else was up to. Mom would freak me out letting me know the minutest detail of ...EVERYONE. The CIA could take a few notes on information gathering from our venerable aunts and uncles.
9 February 2007 at 16:58
Christy (Gallagher) Randall said…
I can't believe it's been 10 years since Aunt Colleen passed away. I have great memories of her. She was always good to me AND funny. She reminded me alot of my Grandma Catherine. Poor Grandma doesn't even remember the great family she has. If she was in her right mind, she would be so glad everyone is talking like this!
10 February 2007 at 10:50
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