so a complete stranger just made me cry.
and helped me feel a lot better.
there is a woman staying at the hospital.
her son just had a frontal lobotomy.
he has 50 some stitches in his head.
and still she decided to comfort me.
i was sitting all by myself in a common room.
she came in and said,
“tell me about your wife…and start from the beginning.”
so i did.
we talked for an hour.
(i could have talked for a lifetime).
i showed her over 400 photos of liz.
she cried with me.
it was great.
thanks, tricia.
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Matt, may I please use some of your flickr photos of Liz for the memory book we (some Scripps alums) are putting together for Madeline? Email me?
Love, Robyn
Of all your entries I’ve read today, this one here is one of my favorites.
Thank you for such a beautiful lesson! Letting others in or allowing them to help is sometimes the hardest thing to do.
Isn’t is amazing how someone can touch your life when they are in need as well? Proves to me that there are amazing people in this world.
I know this is an old entry, but on the off chance you’re still reading these comments – I love entries about Liz’s personality/those anecdotes. Just looking at her photos and then from the book – the zest she had for life shines through. It’s one of those things that make no sense, how someone so vivacious can leave this world so fast. But her memory is now not only with you all, but in the hearts of total strangers, who have fallen in love with her without even knowing her. Hope you’ll still share more Liz stories soon. She’s a shining example of how to live – for Maddy and for all of us.