Originally Posted By yekimak:
I can only wish to be half as resolute in strength of character as you are. I hate hearing of your hardships in that I don't look forward to hearing of a friend suffering, but I can always take away from that that one can still carry forth living. You never speak of any of your trials in a manner that would make me think you were looking for sympathy, but almost as if saying "This is how I tend to my family during these times." Then setting a prime example of what it means to be a patriarch. That gives me a little hope, so the sadness is always a bit tempered. This time I am saddened a little extra because of my own loss today. Saddened not because of my exceptional inferiority in regards to my character, but because I never met your Mom, because a woman who managed to bring you into the world and has raised you such was certainly a person worth meeting and now I can never have the opportunity.