Afternoon all&#33;<br />
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To all of you who don&#39;t know the story my (step) daughter Courtney was just shy of her 18th birthday when we lost her to Muscular Dystrophy.   She was nine when I first met her, and using a walker too get around.  She got progressively worse, and after a long struggle her heart just gave out.  She was a bright and beautiful young lady who was dealt a lousy hand in life.  But she had a wonderful sense of humor.<br />
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She was my flower girl when I married her father - and wore her first grown up dress.  Later on when my DD got married Courtney was her maid of honor - wheelchair and all - and had a ball at the wedding because all the guys were told to &quot;spoil her rotten&quot;.  A dream come true for a 12 year old :o)  She &quot;danced&quot; til the wee hours.....<br />
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The day she died we called my Husband&#39;s Dad to let him know.  When we called him back later in the day we got no answer.  We called and called.  We finally went over to his house and found him at his kitchen table ...... he had gone to take Courtney home.  The date was 2002, 2002.<br />
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I posted a poem I wrote for them somewhere on here - I will try to find it for you.<br />
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Anyway - enough sadness - the sun is shing and there is a compost pile in the back yard that needs turing lol.<br />
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Take care my friends.<br />
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TTFN Jennifer