Dear Mickey and family, I can't believe I am writing you a message of condolence because my cousin has left us. I know she was very sick and in pain but I am selfish. I wanted her to stay. I miss her and I love her very much. We sent messages to each other on FB to keep up with our illnesses. I got a message from her just days before she passed. I sent her back a message that was very long and she responded simply by sending me a thumbs up! We otfen were like water and oil when we were kids.Very differernt outlooks on things. But when all was said and done we loved each other. She looked out for me and I was grateful. I was so shy I could hardly function. Her senior year at Brewster I moved to Florida from Maryland and started my sophomore year at Brewster. I did not know a soul and I was lonely and scared. She had been on the cheerleading squad in previous years but that year joined the Dancerettes. She taught me all the cheers and how to perform each one. She practiced with me everyday and encouraged me to try out when school started. She also went around telling all her friends to vote for me. I lived in her shadow, a very comfortable and safe place to be. She was popular and loved by everyone. She was in many clubs, volunteered for fund raisers, went to every game, she was home coming queen that year and just a great person enjoying her last year of highschool by getting invovled in eveyrthing she could. She drug me along on many of those adventures. My friends were seniors because I was always with her.I didn't really know most of the students in the10th grade. I was priviledged bedause I was with Vickey After that school year I got married and our lives went in different directions for a while. She got married the following October to the love of her life, Mickey. She had two beautiful daughters and abolutely adored them. I thought is was really funny when she came by my house or called me and ask for my advice about the kids or what did I think was wrong? Should she take them to the doctor or would this go away by itself.LOL I was the expert and she was the novice. A turm of events.I can only think of two things she loved more than Mickey and that was Valerie and Tammy. I can only think if a few people she loved more than her girls and that is her grandchidren. She absolutely adored her grand children and was so proud of them she was about to burst when she would talk or write to me about them. So any way, I love her, I miss her, I want her back and I know she is better off and out pain but my pain is unbearable right now and I know you guys are suffering over your most precious loss. I love yoyu guys and will pray for you to be comforted by the many people who thought the world of her and loved her so much.
Love, Dottie