This last week we camped with my sister's children and grandchildren at Garner State Park for five days. It was Tanya's dying wish that her children remain bonded to one another and to their extended family members. She asked that we all go together to the place she loved so much and spread her ashes in the Frio River. We had a great time reliving once again the joys of swimming in the Frio, climbing Old Baldy and two-stepping to favorite Garner oldies. We laughed and talked and watched as her two grandchildren were initiated into the delights we've all enjoyed for the last fifty years. Our memories are bountiful, and now we have added to them this trip and the sprinkling of the ashes of our adored daughter, sister, aunt, mother and grandmother. What a special time it has been. Thank you, Tanya, for watching out for us even as you faced your own exit from this world. I love you with all my heart, my most special friend, my sister.
This last week we camped with my sister's children and grandchildren at Garner State Park for five days. It was Tanya's dying wish that her children remain bonded to one another and to their extended family members. She asked that we all go together to the place she loved so much and spread her ashes in the Frio River. We had a great time reliving once again the joys of swimming in the Frio, climbing Old Baldy and two-stepping to favorite Garner oldies. We laughed and talked and watched as her two grandchildren were initiated into the delights we've all enjoyed for the last fifty years. Our memories are bountiful, and now we have added to them this trip and the sprinkling of the ashes of our adored daughter, sister, aunt, mother and grandmother. What a special time it has been. Thank you, Tanya, for watching out for us even as you faced your own exit from this world. I love you with all my heart, my most special friend, my sister.
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