After almost four decades, I reconnected with a girlfriend from Ontario. We have not spoken except in e-mails and decided that Monday would be the best time to call each other. I just sent her Deborah's sister's wedding video so she can get a glimpse of our family. We are glimpsing into our past to understand our futures in a way. What a gift to reconnect! I am such a privileged person. I did not attend my last year of highschool at the Catholic school that we were in. She always encouraged me to do well in my grades without even saying a word. She was such an inspiration; such a humanitarian. She was an honor roll student and so was I. She had 4 children and so did I. Here we are in our fifties, I'm sure our conversation will be long, and numerous. How can you catch up on decades that have passed? I so look forward to this chapter of my life, the sunset phase. Just maybe she will visit out west one day, who knows? I take rest that we have come full circle in a way. We lived lives to the fullest with all the pain, joy and trials. She kept her Surname, and eventhough I'm not on messenger I asked her one day if she graduated from Senator O'Connor highschool, and somehow on messenger she wrote back... a miracle? I don't know how this technology worked but it did. Since I did not graduate with her in my 12th grade, I lost track of her when I moved out west in 1980. I don't know how I will explain to her how my daughter Deborah died.. that will be the hardest. She only knows that I lost a daughter. Here is a video link of the wedding film I sent her. Deborah's photo is on the head table and on a poster board as everyone entered the church. We honored all those who have gone before us, at the wedding.
https://vimeo.com/134271625
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