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Sunday, July 23, 2000

It is almost hard to believe that 3 years has passed since my mother's passing. It is even harder to believe that such unfortunate circumstances (the passing of my Uncle Jim) have brought me to this website. However, I am here.

All I really wish to say is thank you to the many, many friends and family members that turned out to my mother's funeral. It was greatly appreciated.

To my mother, I know that you are smiling down on me and I hope that you keep a keen eye on your grandchild as she or he arrives and lives in this horrible world. I know that you will. I love and miss you very much.

Chante' Frank
thick-red@excite.com

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Kendra you went to God's home on July 31, 1997 and left an empty void in all of our lives. Each day that I look at your picture memories of our lives and time together fill me with great joy. You are sadly missed but will remain in my world of thoughts forever. I know that you are in a much better place surrounded by those who love you as much as we do.

When God calls upon me to enter his "house" I know that you and all of our loved ones will be there to greet me.

Loving you forever

Your sister
Sherri Izak Brockel
loveslib338@hotmail.com

Friday, January 2, 2004

Happy birthday Mommy. Today is January 2, of the year 2004. Can you believe it? I am sitting here at work thinking of you. I really miss you just as much as I did the last time I visited this website 3 and 1/2 years ago. Oh, did I say keep a keen eye on your grandson? I meant keep a keen eye or pair on your grandsonS. Mommy, I love and miss you dearly. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of you. I love you so much that sometimes the mere thought of you brings tears to my eyes. Until we meet again.

Chante'
chante_frankj24@yahoo.com

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Kendra,

Just thinking about you and needing to tell you how much I love and miss you. I know that you are in God's House with Mommy, Nanny and Aunt June and all of our other relatives...so you are surrounded by love.

Love always,

Your sister,
Sherri Izak Brockel
loveslib338@hotmail.com

Monday, June 21, 2004

Hey mommy. Just sitting here thinking about you and life. It has been so long since I have heard your voice. The same love that I felt when I last heard it is the same love (x2) that I feel when I hear my boy's voices. That love compensates for the pain of not being able to see or hear you.

I often am at wits end, with being an adult, a mom, and all the other stressful roles that a person becomes when he or she grows up. I am ready to leave this whole area, this family, and start all over. The only thing that is holding me back is my father and you. I don't know if I could be that far from you-even though I know that you will never go anywhere.

I wish you were hear to help me make my decisions. I know that it would be that much easier. Until the next time I visit, online or in person, know that I love you and it still hurts as bad as it did the day you passed to not have you in our lives, to not have you watching your grandsons grow into the little men that they are becoming.

Love always,
Baby Girl (Chante' Frank)
c_frank25@yahoo.com

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Mommy,

At the end of this week will be the 7 year anniversary of the day you left us. I can not believe it has been so long. I love and miss you just as much as I did the day you passed. I know you are watching over me and are protecting me and Lonny Dude. I love you. I can't wait until the day we see each other again.

Loving you today, tomorrow, and always.

Your baby girl,
Chante
c_frank25@yahoo.com

Monday, September 27, 2004

Hey mommy. Just sitting here thinking about you. I wanted to let you know that I am really missing you and really needing your guidance. I know you are up there looking down on me but it is not the same as touching you, feeling you, smelling you and hugging you. I miss you and need you so much. I love you. I miss you. I will see you soon.

Chante
chante_frank@excite.com

Friday, February 4, 2005

Hey little sister,
It's been almost 8 years since you've left us. I think about you often but now, I rest assured...knowing that family is there with you. I know that you're not alone...and I will see you soon.

Missin you and loving you always...
Johnni Marty :o)
Martine38@aol.com

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Dear Mommy,

Just sitting here thinking about you and your nephew, Jason. I hope that you have him right there next to you and Nanny. I miss you all more than words could even explain. I love you. I love you all.

Your baby girl,
Te'
hovas_mistress@hotmail.com

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Mommy,

It's your baby girl here. Mother's Day is this Sunday. This is my 5th one as a mom, and my 7th without you. I am really going through it today. I don't know why. I miss you so much that it still makes it hard for me to breathe. I wish you were here so I could talk to you, so I could feel like I belong to something. Right now I feel out of place and lost. I wish I could talk to Kia, but she is still in Florida.

Mommy, I wish you could have waited just a little longer before you left me. I really need your help right now. I have so much hatred in my heart-towards life, towards this God forsaken family, towards myself. I wish I could just hear your voice once. It would help me heal. And I really need to heal. I am hurting inside so much. I have managed to do the one thing that I didn't want to do-turn into my mother. I am following right behind you, living the same life that you did when I was 5. Worse yet, I am putting my children in the same pain as you put me in. I really wish you were hear because you would have been the one to help me through this, you are the only one who could. Well, I love you mom. I will find a way to overcome this. If there is one thing that you taught me is that I am strong, perhaps stronger than you might have been in these circumstances.

I love you today tomorrow and always.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOxOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO.

Te'
hovas_mistress@hotmail.com

Sunday, May 8, 2005

Hey Mommy. I just got off of work. I went to your grave this morning to wish you a Happy Mother's Day. I miss you. I wish I could see your face just once more. I wish I would have valued the time we had together more than I did. I really wish you could be here to see this little crazy children you call grand kids growing, both with some characteristics of their grandmother. I miss the moments that would could of had so much. I wake up still yearning to just be able to pick up the phone and call you. I am reminded of you every day, every time I look in the mirror, every time I look at my children, even when I wash my bellybutton-knowing you are the only reason why it is there, it serves no other purpose. I wanted to take this time out and remember you for the woman you were and the spirit you always will be. I often look into the sky and wonder which angle you are looking down on me from. Do you miss me? I am so sorry for the way we ended up, but I never, NEVER, stopped loving you. You were my best friend, and for years I looked up to you. I wanted to be as beautiful and graceful as you. And no matter what happened, how angry we got at one another, I couldn't stay that way. Who could resist your charm? So today, Mommy, I am telling you, Happy Mother's Day. I love you. And I miss you. Come visit for a dream or something. We'll have dinner in Africa with Michael Bolton singing to us. My treat.

Te'
hovas_mistress@hotmail.com

Saturday, August 27, 2005

To all the family:
To the BEST FRIEND I ever had: Kenny

I am sure that the family does not remember me all too well but I just want everyone to know that Kendra is always carried with me. There is not a day that goes by where I do not think of her and remember all the times that we had spent together. She was my blood sister as teenagers. I have a daughter that carries her middle name and as I call my daughter I think of Kendra and her laugh. I know that she is resting and that she is surrounded by love. To Chante' I remember when your mother was pregnant for you and how proud she was when I walked with her to her apartment on South Main St. to see you for the first time. She told me how beautiful you were and she did not lie. Then when she was pregnant for your brother Loni she did the same thing and again she did not lie cause he was as handsome as she said he was. Your mama loved you kids with all her heart and she blesses you with her presence everyday. When you are thinking of her she is thinking of you.

Kendra, there is always that question of why did you not call me as you had done 2 weeks before all this happened. I love you girl as I told you when we spoke. You are always with me and I will never forget all the fun we had. Best-friends forever as we were in school!

This is to Tara, Sherri, Johnie, Nadene, Dawna and Barry I miss seeing all of you once in a while like I used to. Everyone of you I shall always remember and I leave my e-mail address in case you feel you want to write to me. I love all!

Elenora Soto (Leidy)
roughntoughun@yahoo.com

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Hey Mommy,

Just thinking about you and wanted to see your pretty face. I miss you and I love you just the same as I did 8 years ago. You should see Nahjah and Jahnir. Nahjah lost his tooth and Jahnir just talks (or at least thats what he thinks he is doing). Well, I love you. I will write again soon.

Chante
hovas_mistress@hotmail.com

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Hey mommy. Just sitting here thinking of you, missing you, wishing I could hear your voice. So I decided to write. Nothing too long just enough to say I love and miss you very much. I think of you everyday and every night. I feel such a void in my life since you left. I don't know if it will every close. I do now it will never be filled, it could never be filled. I love and miss you. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Chante' Frank
hovas_mistress@hotmail.com

Friday, December 23, 2005

Thinking about you and missing you always.

Love,
Sherri
slib52256@hotmail.com

Friday, February 24, 2006

Hey giggle-box...just a short note to say that I love and miss you.

Your sister,
Sherri
slib52256@hotmail.com

Sunday, March 5, 2006

Mommy,
Just a note to say that I am thinking about you. I love you very much and miss you the same as I did when you left us July 31st of 1997. Take care of Jason and Nanny.

Chante'
hovas_mistress@hotmail.com

Thursday, June 26, 2008

You know Kendra, no one could ever tell me that you were not my baby, I loved you and still do, with all my heart, you will never know how much I admired you and sometimes even envied you, your smile, your beauty, you, just something about you, always so outgoing, and so proud. I am so sorry that I did not get there in time, before your passing, and I feel guilty about that. When you called me and told me good-bye, and you wouldn't answer me as to who was there, that you were talking to, when you said good-bye, I often wonder who? I want you to know that I love you and you are in my thoughts always, and forever. Remember, the modeling show that I took you to, my god, you the one that should of been modeling, you looked so beautiful, like a angel, and the dress that I purchased for you, I was so upset that you loaned it out and never got it back, it fit you like a glove, oh Kenny, I miss you, I would laugh and call you Kendra Chante' and you always responded with Tara Denise, how we would laugh, I know for a fact that you have wings, and smiling always, as well as joking. Well Mommy is with you and saying what did you do now? Of course she would be a part of what ever you did, and steady laughing herself. Well, honey I have to go for now, I have a long letter to write to James Bond.

Love Always
Tara
Tnubian541@aol.com

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Was I dreaming? Nanny was in the background saying nothing at all, but You came to me during the night, as real as in life and as flesh and
bone. I got up as you sat in the black leather recliner near my bed, I wasn't disturbed by your presence, and sat on the hassock near you, we
laughed, I shared photos of my daughter, my new jacket, and from time to time didn't even allow my mind to question just how?

You were beautiful and flawless. I told you how everyone missed you and that Lonny really missed as well as needed you, but you told me that you
were coming only to see a few and attend a wedding. I didn't understand, but we celebrated the evening as aunt and niece the way we should have in
life but never had the chance, and even today as I sit looking at the recliner, I still feel a sense of calm that you brought about that late
night upon your arrival to my room.

When did you leave? I do not know, I awoke sometime in the AM in the same night gown I had worn to bed, the one I was wearing when you arrived. I
checked the same closet that I showed you my new jacket in, I held the same picture of my daughter that you and I both adored over, and lastly, I sat in
the same chair where you sat telling me you were only here temporarily to see a few and pass through....but there was no you, yet somehow during the
night it was you and I. Now, I stood alone, with only the calm, the memory of your bright smile, the sparkle in your eye...And I smiled back and shed a
tear.

You know, I wish we could have said good bye, embraced, or even had more time. I think about that late evening often, but then the sun rises and I
say, there is Kenny's smile. Then the wind will touch my face, and I'll say, they are aunt kendra's kisses, or my heart will feel warmth with the
thought of you, and I'll state, now, there is that embrace. But, when I await the sign of the good bye... I never receive it, for you have proven
that even in death you can bestow upon me your grace, for death is never an end..... there is no good bye.

Thank You..

I love you
Ta Ne' Ne"
Tanesha
MainSt633@aol.com