Monday, December 19, 2011

Return To Sender from 1985

Yesterday, 18 December 2011, I opened a box and found a letter that I wrote on 3 March1985. A red hand with the words "return to sender" was stamped on the envelope. I had addressed it to Gardy and Isabel, in Fort Worth, Texas. The pointing hand with its “return to sender” message caught my eye. Wondering what I had written, I opened the letter and found a photo next to it. The photo shows, Denise, Orlando and me standing in the Bosque del Apache nature preserve with our son, Jeremy. He was 14 years old in the photo. He died when he was 22. Yesterday was his 42nd birthday. That red pointing hand was an omen, directing me to open the letter and see that it was Jeremy's way of saying hi. I sure do miss him.

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