Another full day since the funeral yesterday, and still we have yet to
unpack iyt all
love, SAm
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From: Sam Eden <[log in to unmask]>
To: carol whiting <[log in to unmask]>; Brooke Webb
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Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: MIDNIGHT REQUIEM FOR MY MOTHER


>Far flung freinds,
>
>My mother, Coleen Back Eden, 61 literally breathed her last at 649 PM on
>Monday, Feb 28, 2000 after 14 days in Hardin Memorial Hospital in
>Elizabethtown,KY.I was there for perhaps a dozen of the last 72 hours of
her
>life, including being the first in the crowded room to recognize her
>passing.
>        200 peopl attended her funeral at 11 AM and some 300 had attended
>the visitation held the night before. I am exhausted emotionally, mentally
>and spiritually at the sher pace of recent events.8-10 people have been in
>the house and as many as 20 have been regularly and recurringly on hgand
for
>a mountain of food that asomehoiw built back up no matter hoiw many
ravenous
>apppetttites sought to chomp it down. Grand Central Station has been a
>decidedly more sedate environment in recent days. The protocols of death in
>this world are over; reflectionb on my mothers passing has hardly begun.
>This last statement is as true for my father and brerother and sisters as
>for myself.
>Please be in prayer for me and my family as we unwind and unwrap in the
days
>and months ahead. I will post more specifics latter, but I must last head
>bedward for the moment.
>
>blessings and thanksgiving,
>
>sce
>
>