The Past

Back in 2009, we had Kitty #1, and he was a big tabby. 

June 05, 2010: Bernice and Marion would be dead 2 years later. I hadn't realized how gaunt Bernice looked when she visited us back then. (She is the one on the far left). Bernice was visiting us for the weekend, Richard was playing his fiddle with Gordon at the yellow triangle in Halifax. By god, both Bernice and Marion continued smoking even at this point. (You can see the red #7 king size on the table). Theresa was pretty happy here. She was her normal feisty self, joking with Bernice and her mother. Marion and Bernice would talk for hours.

Bernice was in heart failure, her circulation was terrible, and she was barely eating. Marion (far right) would suffer a stroke and heart attack a year earlier. Theresa's health was good, although she would be in the hospital back in February for double pneumonia.

Between June 2010 and September 2013, she wouldn't be in the hospital at all. When they both died in March 2012 it crushed her. She no longer had any person (family) that was as close as they both were.

I was watching Anderson Cooper last night. He said something: "I thought to myself, all those people I loved are now dead, and I am the sole survivor of those memories".

And that is me.