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    Dear Elizabeth
    Dear Elizabeth
    Dear Elizabeth
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    Dear Elizabeth

    By Mary E. Lally

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    My experience with my mother gave me the strength to go through the emotional trauma that occurs after a death. In our Irish Catholic fishbowl, we had the family fight, the wake, the family fight, the burial, then finally the family no longer on speaking terms. It also gave me the strength to let her go. I did everything within my own ability to make it okay for her. It was the least I could do for the woman who bore me, raised me, and forgave me. I could ask for no greater gift than the one I could carry with me. I learned never to give up hope. Even in the darkest hours, faith holds the light. Once you open your eyes, the rest is cake.

    I'm not sure if she ever really accepted the fact that she was dying. Sometimes I thought she did and other times not. My accepting it, looking at what was happening right here now, was the most difficult fragment of my journey with my mother. Like her, sometimes I did look at reality and sometimes I didn't. Those times it was just too painful. I wouldn't trade a lifetime for what I had with my mother that year. What she did for herself was best. What she did for me was awesome. This book is meant to revere the woman that she was, the woman she became in the end and the mother she will always be to me. Elizabeth was an extraordinary woman with strength and wisdom beyond her own belief. This book is to honor her memory and her beautiful soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMar 10, 2004
    ISBN9781412221481
    Dear Elizabeth
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    Mary E. Lally

    Mary Elizabeth Lally was born and raised on Long Island, New York. She is from a large family that was linked together through her beautiful mother, Elizabeth Lally. Mary has faced many challenges in life but one of the greatest was when her mother was diagnosed with cancer for the second time. Mary graduated with her Master's degree in Social Work from Stony Brook University and has gone on to be an advocate in her community for the elderly and disabled population.

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