Loved Ones Memorial Letter

Memorial Day got me thinking. Everyone has lost someone in their lives whom they loved very much. Although they're no longer with us, their memories live on in our hearts. Let someone else know how great that person was.

For this swap, you will write at least a one page letter to your partner about someone in your life who has passed away. You can include anything you'd like in the letter, memories of that person, how they died, when they passed away, just please make sure the letter is about your loved one. You can include a picture or poem as well if you'd like, but it's not required.

Newbies are welcome, but please take this one seriously, other than that you must have a rating of at least 4.5. I'd hate to have someone pour their heart out and then be left high and dry.

Here's a little something I found in Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of The Dead:

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalized ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many can be recalled by name. But they are not living-dead. There is a difference.

--JAMES LOEWEN, LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME