Thank you for all the positive comments and messages, I really appreciate them. I really wrote this FOR me and TO Sweetie Pie so it is extremely gratifying to know that others find it of value as well. I intend on editing it a little to clean it up and then I'm going to have it printed and bound for Sweetie Pie with all of the comments as an afterward.

Patty - the death was an amazingly life affirming moment for nearly everyone on that plane, I believe. I saw the good and the best of a lot of people there, it was incredible.

Marley - Tears AND Smiles? That makes me happy Thrown in a laugh, a hmmmm and a WTF!! and you'd have just about everything I was shooting for!

Misti - YOUR story blew me away. What an honor, thank you.

Clarity - Thanks, I can say much the same for your postings. There is an unusual thread of unnervingly final reality that has woven it's way through many of our experiences on this board lately.

I truly, TRULY look forward to meeting all of you in the next month or so. Thanks again.

Peace and Understanding