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C. Edwin Fender's avatar

Linda, you are so dang good at analyzing how real life happens that life should respect that by giving you a break now and then. You tell it like it is and I respect that very much! ♥

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Linda S Clare's avatar

Ed,

Thank you so dang much. I hope you'll keep writing--and reading The Deep End.

Bless You,

Linda

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Pam Mulcaire's avatar

as always, spot on

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Linda S Clare's avatar

Pam,

I'm thinking of you today as I drop off and pick up my husband from his dialysis session. Some days are harder than others, right?

Peace,

Linda

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Pam Mulcaire's avatar

definately good days and bad days... as Jerry Sittser says, "we live between the beauty and the terror" if we lived closer together I would be at your house every day!!!!!!

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Linda S Clare's avatar

Pam,

I like Oregon better than Arizona. You still live there?

~Linda

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Sherry V. Chidwick's avatar

Ah, I love this. Your masterful mix of the reverent with the irreverent makes me smile every time. Loving people well, in ways that feel like love--especially adult children--is SO not easy. You are so right there. Just today I posted about how stepping out in love (so to speak) actually landed me in the urgent care for X-rays. They say love hurts, right? haha

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Linda S Clare's avatar

Oh no! I hope you're OK. Yeah, my journey with adult children has been pretty rocky, but I'd rather love them than leave them out in the cold. Ouch, love does hurt but it is worth it.

Thanks for reading,

Linda

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