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<\/p>\nWe have a rose in our yard called ‘Lichtk\u00f6nigin\u00a0Lucia’, Lucia Queen of Light.\u00a0 It was\u00a0given to us by good friends shortly after Lucia died.\u00a0\u00a0This year, the leaves are verdant green, the blooms full, abundant, bright, and fragrant.\u00a0The rose carries such meaning it is almost company.<\/p>\n
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We sent photos to the family who gave it to us. “The beautiful Queen of Light.\u00a0 She is looking absolutely radiant; how could it be anything other!”\u00a0 Shining appropriately, as Lucia would be.<\/p>\n
It’s different now, of course.\u00a0\u00a0Now we have to see Lucia’s radiant, vibrant energy in other ways.\u00a0 Sometimes\u00a0in the effect Lucia had, and still has, on others.<\/p>\n
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Something in\u00a0it all could make a difference for someone.\u00a0 It might help another family hold on to their loved one for longer.\u00a0 It may help others find some flicker of light, some hope, some deep pride in the thought that their loved one has made life better, possible, for another.<\/p>\n
Yet for all that, it’s not enough for us.\u00a0\u00a0Lucia\u00a0was much more than her medical condition, her transplants, her campaigning.\u00a0After she finished\u00a0her talks, her presentations, her hospital visits and operations – all but one –\u00a0she came home, the youngest and much cherished member of our family of four.\u00a0 She was just our Lucia again, at home.<\/p>\n
So of course it’s not enough.\u00a0 No fair trade.\u00a0 But it is “a something.”<\/p>\n
And sometimes it catches the light.\u00a0 It shines.\u00a0 A sweet fragrance on a breeze…<\/p>\n
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