Archive for April, 1979

1979-04-10

Tuesday, April 10th, 1979 
      Dear DG,
           The burden has lifted, he's taken some off.  Again he came
      through so no more am I blue.
           It all got to be too much to bear.  Life itself seems so
      unfair.  bruised ego caused by my boss left me confused.  How I
      hate so to lose.  Ernie's understanding ways, support and all
      have left me dazed.
           But then I dropped in to talk a bit, and felt myself rise
      from that deep dreary pit.
           Sue has entered into his life and still he deeply loves
      his wife.
           Jim has entered my life too, and then my love for Ted's
      not new.
           The love I give always not free, but tonight with him I'd
      rather be!
                       Thanks for being you!
                          Love,
                             Kathleen
                             11:40 p.m.
      p.s. for KH file

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1979-04-26

Thursday, April 26th, 1979 

     My mother died without all the kindness I could give her
     and I could never see it until she’d gone.
     Rose held me and told me thru my tears
     that she’s always wished she could change this about me;
     that I could never see the problems of the people I loved
     until they became critical and knocked me down.
     Always so lost in my own inner realities, so insensitive.
     “Learn from it.”, she said, with kindness,
     “Its the first time you’ve lost someone close, the first time
     you’ve realized just how unalterable that last moment is
     when you wish you could have left things otherwise.”
                                 gallagher
                                 26 Apr 1979

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