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To say Bethy had a magnetic personality would be a gross understatement. There was just something about her. She was so much fun; she just drew all of us to her. I suspect all of us (us being the cousins) felt this way, but I always felt like I had a special relationship with her - I always felt like I was her favorite nephew. That’s part of what made her so special – she made all of us feel that way…. Brian and I were talking about her one night up there and he made a really good point. He said that sometimes when a person dies people make them out to be better than they were or more than they were in life. People have a tendency to, understandably, exaggerate the positive attributes of the deceased. But, he said, Bethy was an exception – it was impossible to overstate what she meant to those that knew her. True indeed.
Excerpts from an email I received from my cousin a short while after my dad passed away. Having not known my mom I always love hearing stories about her, and this was no exception. It really meant a lot to me that he wrote this. Hearing all the good things about Mom, makes me feel better about who I am, because I know she’s a part of me.
