Letters to Josephine

I miss my beautiful mother each and every day since October 27, 2007. I remember all the lessons she taught me: to live, to laugh every day, that "it's not how long you live but how well." She lost her childhood sweetheart to cancer then remarried and did well financially but still had some family issues. Instead of living comfortably into her old age she came down with Alzheimer's disease, deteriorated rapidly and died of a heart attack which was mercifully swift. I am qualified to write this b