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				Originally posted by TheLegacy  
my mom passed only a few years ago - and although I miss her alot, the best way I can celebrate her is to have a happy life and living with the values she instilled in me and giving the best I can - the fullest in the years to follow. 
			
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 Thank you, my Robert.  That was lovely and it helped me. 
 
One of the things you have to have ready when you have kids is what I call "the death talk."  The very first time my two little bits fell in love with mice at the pet store my first thought was "oh, shit, I have to get the death talk ready."  (Mice only hang around for a couple of years.)  Well, dead pets, like balloons that slip away, all go up to this beautiful place that I described to them...and Grandma.  If I was at all accurate in my description, my mother is sitting under a tree full of balloons (she despises balloons) surround by cats, dogs, mice, rats, chickens and a hermit crab.
Boy, is my Mom pissed. 
