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pasture so she would always be on the ranch. Everybody was very sad and on the grave stone ,that was put out in the family graveyard as a memorial and at the insistence of her parents. It simply had her name and in quotations "Raindrops From Heaven"

It was a few weeks after rainy memorial that he asked her mother to come out to the house and get her things. He said that it depressed him to have her things around. So her mother came out to the house and picked up her things and while she was there he offered her a cup of her special tea as one last cup to her. It was then that her mother noticed that there were no similarity's in the tea that he had served her as her daughters tea before. She past it off, but it was like raindrops from heaven it was a good tea.

So it was decided that the adorable little boy that was not motherless was to go visit his grandparents two weekends a month. So when he was dropped off that weekend his grandmother was going through his mothers things and baking some almond bread. Her grandson had brought her a batch of cookies made from his father and she was baking some almond bread to repay him. It was then that her grandson said Raindrops from heaven and his grandmother thought that this was odd. She asked him what would make him make that statement and he said that's what they smell like. He said that his mommies tea always smelled of raindrops of heaven that was what she said they smelled like.

Her mother then though back to the cup of tea at the ranch that day. She then thought of the scented bags in her daughters closet and they smelled of almond too. This was odd she thought as well as she knew her daughter she had never known that almond was her favorite scent. Then she noticed that her purfume was scented with almond. All of these things seemed odd to her. She asked her grandson if these scented bags had always hung in his mommies closet. His response was that she always had the raindrops from heaven hanging in her closet but that there were smells of peace everlasting in her closet now with the nannies things.

This shocking the mother called her former son in law and asked about the statements of the grandson and was told that he and the nanny had just been married and that he knows that it is sudden but they were both grieving. So on a whim she took the cookie to the police department to have them tested and the test came back positive for arsenic. She then went through her daughters things and found the vials from the wedding.

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