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Carmen
We all have many things to be thankful for but every Thanksgiving (and many
times over the year) I am most grateful for people who have added to my life and
are no more with my physically--I know they are my Guardian Angels looking over
my shoulder every day of the year--though YOU may not know them they are a part
of my family and I would like to share them with you. During the 80s I lost many
friends due to AIDS but now as I am old I am losing many of them to natural
causes from growing old.
I miss Layde. She was fun and a great
supporter of mine not to mention donating many hours to editing my books and,
many times, my thoughts. We met in Tennessee and a few years later she moved to
Dallas with her sister Nina and Nina's partner Jean. She was always there for me
with a joke or a shoulder to cry on.
Within two months we lost two ladies here at Gateway, Carmen and Liz, both to
cancer. Liz was an outgoing artist who volunteered every Saturday giving walking
tours of the Bonnet House, an historical landmark in Fort Lauderdale. She did not suffer fools
gladly and wasn't shy about telling them off.
I have never seen a family
matriarch as loved by her family as Carmen was and each child, both daughters
and sons, were more beautiful, more handsome than the other. They were polite,
well mannered and respected all adults even as they were adults themselves. Her
grandson, a strapping 6 feet, 200 pound 13 year old, loved her so much he
couldn't but help show her every time he was near. She was caring, loving,
positive and optimistic to all her family, friends and neighbors and had a
wicked sense of humor.
They may just be names to you but along with many others they bring a smile
and warmth to me whenever I think of them and I often do. I hope Ladye, Liz and
Carmen get to say hello to:
Albyn (heart
attack), Flo (cancer), Joe (stroke), Ginny (cancer), Ronnie (heart attack) Bob
B. (heart attack), John C. (AIDS), Tom L. (AIDS), Ray B. (heart attack), Buddy
(AIDS), Michael Mc (AIDS), Joe (heart
attack) Bob/Dr K (heart attack), Vinnie (heart attack) Robert I.
(phenomena)--just a few of my Guardian Angels!!!!