Sympathy. My mother died, not that young but still not very old, of cancer some considerable while ago, and I still miss her in the falling of the leaves and at the turning of the tide, but when I consider the fraught relationships with parents that some of my friends have, I am grateful to have had a mother for whom I can have those emotions.
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Date: 2010-04-22 09:12 (UTC)My mother died, not that young but still not very old, of cancer some considerable while ago, and I still miss her in the falling of the leaves and at the turning of the tide, but when I consider the fraught relationships with parents that some of my friends have, I am grateful to have had a mother for whom I can have those emotions.