Smiles that live!

Goodbyes

Maybe it’s because of Facebook? I am not sure why but I have been thinking about Janice Brown so much lately. Then I looked at Medinah and remembered that you where pregnant with her when Janice died!! I remembered the funeral and it all came flooding back to me last night when she was talking to you and smiling so beautifully~ the way things happen for me way too deep for the general public. Why I am so glad it’s just us here Right? I hope no one else reads this I know people can find it but who cares about what a couple of sisters have to say to one another for posterity sakes? Jayne Do you remember her? What a light! What a person. I think her death devastated me more then I let on because for the first time someone young with so much going for her was taken. She & Jackie were best friends & I was the tag along sister whom they tolerated. She was way nicer then Mean Jackie and they both were extremely brave… She played with Jackie Two on Two against men in basketball and paddleball and I would be in awe of the two of them checking those guys and bumping them I’d be like better not touch me like that! But I was downright scared of those men! She would smile right in their faces and take the ball or hit a “killer” I was so amazed when we started dancing African and she could do that too ! So many laughs side splitting and felt like they were timeless~ SO when she complained about her leg hurting through a breathtaking smile and laugh there was no way for us to know that she would die! I remember so much going on then: Ju was not well, Jack you were having Med and recently married or going to be I’m not sure and well I was in Nursing school and working 2 jobs.

Some people never leave you & she is one of them. One big memory of her, is when I got my license she took me driving with her and when we were heading home; she drove passed a STOP sign and backed up she said: “ I do not want to set a bad example, Joanne when you see a STOP sign you stop count to 3 look both ways then go”. I really think her friendship and love had a lasting impact on me and I do see a bit of her in Medinah (I know It Does not make Sense)

Cheers to you Janice ! Wish we could find you on facebook! I miss you 20 years later!