I DIDN'T KNOW(1) I'D NEVER SEE MOM AGAIN
See (2) and (3) in other Relationships & Family Area. Originally, my "LAST MOTHER'S DAY GOODBYE" was too long - rejected - so I have split it up into three parts, each under 20,000 characters - I HOPE. This is (1) of (3)

It was after the fact that that I had to overcome the post-Mother's Day blues.

LAST MOTHER'S DAY GOODBYE

In Honor of My Mother - Evelyn (Peggy) Krulan, who died just six weeks (42 days) later - June 28, 1984

By her younger son

Not knowing you're visiting your mother for the last time and not knowing that she will die in just forty-two days, such a visit can have a profoundly different effect when looking back on it in hindsight from the moment you lose her. You treasure your memory of it forever; it becomes a permanent video that can be played back within your mind - whenever. "Your mother could go at any time; she's a walking time bomb," Sam, my step-dad, told me for many years when I'd visited them in Florida before. After Sam repeatedly told me that, I got so used to it, that I passed it off as unbelievable, more unbelievable each year - as if nothing was wrong with my mother at all - that she'd live on and on; it never occurring to me that the day would come when she'd be gone. At age seventy-one (just turned it that April 28), when I last saw her, she still looked young and beautiful! Well, Sam would go on and say - "Your mother is an actress, she even tries to fool her doctor 'I'm feeling fine'!" If she managed to fool him, despite the dire test results upon examining her, then she could fool anybody! But not Sam; he knew, if no one else did, that something was seriously wrong with her. For years, she minimized her pain, and tried to hide the truth; she'd, for years, had a seriously damaged heart, and had suffered a near fatal stroke back in 1975. No one would suspect it though, as evidenced by her spiritual heart. That's how she yet seemed young and beautiful! She had a heart of gold! I think of Stevie Wonder's theme song from the movie "The Outsiders" (1983) - "Stay Gold"!

On December 26, 1995, I was sitting in my seat at the Cross County Multiplex Cinemas in Yonkers, New York, waiting for the James Bond movie - "Goldeneye" to begin, when suddenly I caught the sight of an extraordinarily attractive woman walking down the aisle to my right. I did not get a direct look at her, just her profile and then her back. She looked very familiar - the hair, the coat she was wearing

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