Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Zakia Arrives Today

My mother-in-law, Zakia, arrives today for a long visit. Zakia was hit hard with the news of mom's death; she had spoken to her by phone several times since she moved back to Cairo, and they had plans to meet within a day or two, but mom died suddenly. Mom really liked Zakia, and was very glad to have spoken to her. I know this because, even with mom's serious short-term memory problems at the end, she remembered every conversation they had.

Nobody can replace mom, ever, but Zakia is as close a second as is humanly possible, and my heart sings that she is coming. Maybe I can also get her to tell me a story about mom to post here.

Oh, and I spoke to Sylvia Luppert yesterday. What a wonderful woman! More on this later.

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