This year's Christmas letter is really going to suck

[wild_patience]

For those who haven't heard, my mother just died. Story behind the cut.

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I guess that I haven't visited your LiveJournal page in quite a while. My dad died a couple of weeks later, and while we really weren't close, he was ill, and I hadn't even spoken with him in years, a poem I'd recently read had resolved me to go and visit him (my brother is much closer, and had moved in to care for him, and this was hard for him) it did upset my life for a while and with other things I've really lost touch with some of the internet pages. I was thinking that I must have missed this on Facebook, too, but while I've obviously missed some of your postings since then, when I looked at your page there, I remembered learning about your mom after all. But this brings it all much more real and immediate. And your subsequent accounts of how Christmas is changed by the absence truly captures an experience that is only too common. I'm so sorry for your loss, and so glad that you have such good memories of your mom, and the keepsakes of piano and tree ornaments and so forth. I'm not so good about keeping up with the