Earlier tonight my dad had got a call from my second cousin letting us know his wife had passed away. She had suffered a massive heart attack on Wednesday, and though they did get her heart back to beating, she is no longer responding to stimuli, and her kids decided yesterday to pull the plug and let her go in peace.
She was a remarkable lady, who met my cousin when he was in prison and they did marry when he did get out (a singular achievement in Texas since death penalty convictions rarely get overturned, but it did and rightly so in his case.) They had visited me and my folks several times, and I did visit her when I was moving back to Vegas from Vermont in 2004.
The first pic was me standing out by my truck that she taken with my camera, the next two were of her at her home in Mississippi. I spent two days there just taking a breather and getting my bearings back from the mess of a sudden breakup and short-notice evac from a suddenly bad living situation.
They were hoping to come out to my dad's property in Arizona for a change of scenery, but of course now that isn't likely to happen.
I am feeling down about it now, but I am sure tomorrow it will pass and I will cherish her memory.
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