Auntie -- I will miss you. I think back when I first got married, our talks on how to cook for my husband. You helped me so much with that, I remember when you laughed when I found the stuff in the cavity of that thawed turkey and how I gagged over the phone or when I could not make my tortillas round and gave up. I cried and you told me I would get better the more I made them, I never got better and I buy them. How sad. My boys will miss you, they never did anything wrong in your eyes and you were perfect to them. You are with your True Love now auntie and your parents, sister and brothers, my mom and Stephen. I love you and I will cherish my pot holders and the bibs you made my boys. Thank you for YOU all these years. I love you.

 

Venessa Crespin (Reprinted from denverpost.com)