to Stealth and anyone else missing someone.
She sounds fabulous
I love the connections women have with each other, particularly those within families or very close friends, and women like your godmother. I love that it’s been happening forever, women talking to each other and forming those deep, almost primal bonds with each other; nourishing each other’s souls with love, laughter, companionship, singing and the shared experience of being female. It’s a completely different thing to a male/female relationship, whether that’s a decades long loving marriage or a close friendship, or even a sibling bond.
That female closeness is such a very special thing, it’s part of the reason FWR is such a unique corner of the Internet. Losing people you love is so desperately hard, you never really get over it but in my experience time does soften the initial agony. Your heart always hurts a bit though. I lost my dad as a teenager, as well as a number of other close family members in fairly quick succession, and I can only say that at some point you’ll make a choice - you can choose to go under with the weight of grief, or you can choose to turn to the sun and try to live your life the way that special person would want.
If your godmother would have been at home in FWR she must have been amazing; another brilliant witty voice to add to the chorus of wonderful women here
Sending un-MNetty hugs. It’s ok to grieve those we lose, it honours them by showing how special they were.
(Sorry for the length, and indeed depth, of that post. I think I may have got carried away a bit
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