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Grandma

Well, the suffering is done and over with.  My grandma passed this morning, and my feelings about this are bittersweet.  This word, bittersweet, seems to be a theme for me for the last three weeks after having the most wonderful time in Tennessee visiting Ray, my best friend and co-founder of Frees.  He has been so good through all of this, and the irony is not lost on either of us that the cancer situations that we have both been through--him with his mom and another very close personal friend--and me with my grandmother--have borne striking similarities to one another.  We believe that God has divinely connected us, and I believe that it is for the divine purpose that this group should grow and prosper into the support system that I believe God intended it to be.  Now a little bit about my state of mind during the last few days of her life:  As I have written before, I have had times in which I have thought that I couldn't go on watching...