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Maggie, I was thinking about you today (as I do always) and decided to Google your name. If you run your name through Google Images, your photo comes first!! You're famous on Google! It made me smile to see your smiling face right there. I miss you Maggie. I love you!

Well, Maggie, it would have been your 28th birthday today. We should be out celebrating, having cake and whatnot. Instead, we only have our memories of fond birthdays past to comfort us right now.

 

While I was walking today, the song "Alright" by Skindred came on. I know how much you loved that song. It always reminds me of you.

 

Brandon misses you like crazy, still. He has not forgotten you. And Kiera is growing up to be a fine little lady. She looks at your picture and says you are pretty.

 

I know how much you used to hate that your birthday was in the winter ... But I still wanted to wish you a very happy birthday. I am so glad that you were born!! Even though our time on Earth together was brief, I am so glad to have had a big sister like you. I miss you. Not a day goes by where I don't think of you. Take care. I love you.

It's been a year and I still can't believe your gone. I always said I shoulda been a better friend to you, shoulda have still been ur friend and maybe just maybe u would still be here. I just think of all the possibilities and hurt that ur life ended when it just started. Now u are in a better place. Angels never stay forever on earth, they eventually go back to heaven to work from there. I will always remember you.

Dearest Maggie,

 

So it's been a year. Time has flown. I was just thinking of your favorite song at the time you passed. "Alright" by Skindred. I think you were trying to tell us all something ... That you were trying to tell us that it was going to be alright. Sadly, sister, it isn't alright. There is nothing that can fill the void you left.

 

I wanted to post the lyrics to that song on your anniversary. I think it says a lot about your life.

 

Alright

By Skindred

I know that I hit you with a full on attack
Never pulled no punches it was full contact
Now we enter the place and we no wan bring it back init?
Hit you in the heart and made a deep impact
Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock

I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things some people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true

I know it's gonna be alright
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gonna be all right
Get up off the ground you'll be all right

Every little thing is gunner be alright

Want you to know it hurts so much when your heart gets cracked
War in love can knock you off track
We all want revenge that's the way we react init?
It's alright we bounce back intact
Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock

We all fall down and hit the concrete
Get up off the ground stand up on your feet
Nursing your bruises you know you got beat
We want surrender we want retreat
There's gorra be an end to the conflictions alright

I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things that people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things that people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are sad but true

But I know it's gonna be all right
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Alright alright

Happy New Year, Maggie. I wrote a poem for you. I know it's freeverse, but Maggie liked things like that.

 

You brought so much light into our world
Your vibrant laugh, your piercing eyes
The voice of an angel with a heart full promises.

You were so dynamic
You lit a fire under all of us.

Our world has gotten too small without you.
There's a gaping hole where you once stood
All I hear now is the echo of my own heartbeat
Your absence is glaring
The silence is deafening.

 

We'll hold on to our memories of you.
You may not walk this earth,
but you're still alive.
Watch out for us like you always did.
We know you always had our back.

I want to extend my condolences to the rest of my family and also to Maggie's friends. We all miss Maggie so much. And to my dear sister Maureen, You have done such a wonderful job honoring Maggie's memory. This is a beautiful tribute to her. I know that you miss Maggie a lot. You two did so much together over the years. She is now at peace in heaven and is watching over us.

Love, Kathleen

A Child Loaned
"I'll lend you for a little time
A child of Mine." He said.
"For you to love the while he lives
And mourn for when he's dead.
It may be six or seven year
Or twenty-two or three
But will you, till I call him back
Take care of him for Me?
He'll bring his charms to gladden you
And should his stay be brief,
You'll have his lovely memories
As solace for your grief.

I cannot promise he will stay
Since all from Earth return,
But there are lessons taught down there
I want the child to learn.
I've looked this wide world over
In my search for teacher's true,
And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes,
I have selected you;
Now will you give him all your love,
Nor think the labour vain
Nor hate Me when I come to call
And take him back again?

I fancied that I heard them say,
"Dear Lord, They will be done,
For all the joy Thy child shall bring,
For the risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter him with tenderness,
We'll love him while we may,
And for the happiness we've known,
Forever grateful stay.
But should the angels call for him
Much sooner than we planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes
And try to understand."
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I'll always remember the person you were and how great you were. You never allowed anyone to push you around and you taught me so much. You had my back when people have hurt me. And I remember how much you loved my daughter Larissa and after babysitting her you told me so and how you used to call her LJ. I'll miss that. And as Larissa gets older she'll know how much you loved her. To  Maureen I know how close you guys were and I just wanted to say that all you have done to keep Maggie's memory alive is beautiful and she would be so proud the way you have handled things. She was so blessed to have a sister like you. So with this new year coming Maggies memory will keep living and years after that.

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.