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    Rosepetals: towards memory...
    Rosepetals: towards memory...
    Rosepetals: towards memory...
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    Rosepetals: towards memory...

    By Nina Gibans

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    On May 10th 2018, Jim Gibans, Nina’s husband of more than 60 years died. In April of 2018, when Jim’s health started to decline, Nina wrote to him, she wrote him poetry. She wrote him a poem almost every day. And she read them to him. Rosepetals: towards memory... is a collection of poetry by Nina Gibans in honor and celebration of her late husband Jim Gibans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherATBOSH Media Ltd.
    Release dateFeb 3, 2021
    ISBN9781626131408
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      Rosepetals - Nina Gibans

      Some context…

      On May 10th 2018, Jim Gibans died.

      In April of 2018, when Jim's health started to decline, Nina wrote to him, she wrote him poetry. She wrote him a poem almost every day.

      And she read them to him.

      Nina is no stranger to poetry, she has been writing all her life.

      Jim had written to her as well. For the over 60 years Jim and Nina were together, they spent very little time apart. But when they were apart, Jim wrote to her. At their bedside Nina keeps a box of over 100 letters that Jim wrote to her when he was studying in England in

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