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Happy Birthday to my mother

by Elizabeth on March 27th, 2007

Today is/would have been (what is the proper terminology, here?) my mother’s 72nd birthday.

Don’t know if it’s necessary anymore, but, if it’s customary, I hope they throw a decent party for her in Heaven.

It’s one of those first year after death milestones. So far, though it’s obviously on my mind, it hasn’t been too bad, emotionally.

I haven’t talked to my father. However, he had issues remembering it when she was alive, so, we’ll see if he says anything.

Thus far, I have celebrated by giving a homeless guy 50 cents for a beer, which I NEVER do, he just struck me as interesting (the hazards of using wifi in a public area), but, I asked him to give her a toast.

Ironic, I know, since her 25th AA birthday just passed. The gentleman agreed, and, right after that, an old children’s song she used to sing all the time came on the radio.

Seriously, I have never heard that song on the radio ever, until just now.

Yeah, I know. I don’t usually put stock in stuff like that either, but, now I may have to do just that.

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