I’ll never forget that day.
Poor Kaaren was an absolute wreck.
His friend Frank was a decent guy who never had a bad word to say about just about anyone.
He made Kaaren laugh and laugh.
They would talk for hours and Kaaren would apologize to me for taking all that time away from me.
I’d never be cross with him about it but he’d get a “correction “ spanking and he would be fine.
This post brought home something that bothers me still.
When I had the memorial service for Kaaren I couldn’t help but notice that everyone, literally everyone, there were my friends and family.
By the time he’d passed Kaaren had been abandoned by everyone he’d known in his life leaving him only my friends and family to mourn his passing.
This didn’t go unnoticed by my relatives and my mother actually asked me about it afterwards.
What could I say to her in response?
The subject of this post was basically Kaaren’s only friend of his own.
I think I understand why he wrote it and why he didn’t post it.
The people who knew him before he became Kaaren didn’t know him anymore.
The family he had, proved not to be family to him at all
And that was their loss because they missed the chance to know him.
But he had me and my family and my friends and he had you. He loved the people who read his “silly little blogs”.
At the end of the day I know that Kaaren was surrounded by people who loved him and l know that he felt that in his heart.
Mrs K