Family Matters
My uncle died last Tuesday. I got a nice letter from my cousins (apparently mailed the day before) in which we were exhorted to "go beyond the usual cards and flowers" to do something really special for him - send him a letter. So I started composing one for him in my head. It said only this:
"You and I both know what you did, but I forgive you. Thank you for what you gave to me. Have a nice trip."With a strike-anywhere match enclosed, so he could destroy the evidence and what it might have wrongly suggested to prying eyes, after his death.
But then, oops, he died. I thought I was off the hook. But then my cousin asked me if I'd written a letter and I said I did but didn't have a chance to mail it in time. So my cousin asked me to send it anyway, because his Mom was collecting the letters in a memorial book. Erk! What should I do?? I'd rather just send a letter to my aunt.
3 comments:
Write a different letter, Red. Something you can live with. Too late for the old man. Love and hugs. Y.
Agree with Yvonne. :)
Nah--don't send it. But I don't think you have to feel obligated to send anything unless you want to, regardless of what your cousin says.
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