Dear God Thank you for bringing Don into my life. Dear Don Thank you for being my beloved husband in life. Thank you for tapping me on my shoulder and asking me if I would like to roller skate the night we met. Thank you for dating and courting me and asking me to be your wife. Thank you for being my inspiration, giving me your love and being my loving partner through life. Thank you for laughing, loving, and sharing your interests and life with me. Thank you for holding my hand as we walked through the parks, through the shopping malls, along the beaches, and streets in the neighborhoods we lived. Thank you for your spontaneous and sometimes sarcastic humour that made me smile and break out in laughter. Thank you for caring for me in my times of sickness and health. Thank you for loving our family of many cats. Thank you for changing the litter box for all the years you were able to do so. Thank you for singing as we listened to the music we loved to share. Thank you for dancing with me even when you didn't want to. Thank you for being faithful, loving and a devoted husband to me. Thank you for introducing me to spaghetti, pizza, your collection of the The Beatles, Moody Blues, and Fleetwood Mac music. Thank you for tolerating my addiction to playing Elvis music in our home. Thank you for watching tv and movies with me. Thank you for watching the BBC and keeping me up-to-date on current events. Thank you for sharing family times, events and quiet moments with me. Thank you for helping your Mom and Dad build their retirement home and helping them manage their lives during the difficult periods of illness that followed. Thank you for helping your Mom after Dad died. Thank you for holding me in your arms and allowing me to snuggle as we slept though the night. Thank you for sharing your ideas, thoughts, incredible knowledge and insight, drawings and stories with me. Thank you for saying you forgave me for the times my patience wore thin. Thank you for listening to me when I needed to talk or endured other pains or troubles in life. Thank you for telling me to be careful driving each day when I left home. Thank you for telling me that you were glad to see me each day when I came home. Thank you for reaching out to me to hold and squeeze my hand. Thank you for telling me that you loved me. Thank you for all the love you gave me, the special times we shared, and most of all for being you. I love you so very much my darling. You were my strength, my comfort, my life. I will hold you and all that we shared together so dearly and forever in my heart. I will miss you so. You are free of your body now. Do sing, draw, write, laugh, walk and dance. Take care of yourself. This is just a separation right now. Someday I will join you and we can pick up where we left off through eternity. Like the song "Songbird" sings, I'm singing it to you now my darling, "I love you, I love you, I love you." Forever yours, Love always through eternity, Your wife, Joan