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I thought I'd start a discussion where we can check in with members and use this space to keep in contact. It's a space to be able to say how you really feel and it's a space for the good, the bad and the ugly moments in our lives.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Hi @Sans911.... 🤗👋💕
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TeejSenior Contributor
@CheerBear I know you are in the grip of lots of very difficult things. I’m thinking of you and hope that things are ok with special person and you with big scary weekends and weeks.
I found this. You may not be in the headspace to read this now but I thought it was interesting.
It’s a short essay on hope.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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PepsimaxSenior Contributor
@CheerBear sounds like you are missing parts of your life you had sounds like you could have said goodbye to some people but weren't able to I get missing people but in a different way are the kids on holiday thinking of you🌻🌼🍄😍
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
@CheerBear
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
@CheerBear @Teej I have been thinking of those missing or absent from here today with some sadness but I have also been thinking of you both today and how much support you have both given me over my journey here and just wanted you to know how much I appreciate you both. Life isn't always fair or just but it is people like you that make it easier to get through each day. I know there are people that are no longer here with us that I do miss terribly and that is why I wanted to recognise those people that do mean a lot to me - and you both definitely mean a lot to me. I know we don't often connect here much these days but that does not change my feelings for you both. ...and no matter what you feel - you are both very special people 
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Lots n lots of hugs @CheerBear .... ❤️🌈 .... I know some of those feelings, but not in the same way. Holding you up in thought and heart ......
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TeejSenior Contributor
Hey @CheerBear. I think it would be hard for most people to fathom being in one life one day and the next being ripped from it. Mine was not the same as yours in that it wasn’t forced upon me....well it kind of was but in a very different way.
Thinkng of you and and hope you get time to be in your nest very soon where you can just be and grieve and replenish a little. At some point after you’ve looked back it’s good to look forward too. All of us that have gone through something life changing will never be the same again but maybe we can still be better versions of ourselves.
I know things must be so tough just now with everything happening in your life just now. I’d be a complete zombie. My kids would be calling me by my first name because I wouldn’t hear them say mum :face_with_rolling_eyes: (I have one who still does 😳).
Just wondering if there was a way for a visitor to mind the kids while you g and sit on a hill and look at city lights or some variation and just be with your thoughts for a bit. (Fix it brain suggestion)
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TeejSenior Contributor
Thank you @Zoe7. I’m not sure what to say. I know that you have become entrenched in my brain now too. Everytime I see butterfly art I think of you (today I was having coffee with mum out and there was a really simple but effective piece of butterfly art). I see how far you’ve come and it is fabulous. I can see the butterfly trying so had to emerge from that cocoon. I have a feeling she’ll be amazing like this one 💜🤗
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