Gail

Imagine, if you will, fighting cancer on four different occasions. That's what she did. Ok... now once you've got that horror down, imagine doing it with a smile. That's what she did.

Went to her funeral yesterday afternoon. The pain her daughters and husband felt was tremendous. You could feel it radiating out from under the canopy. The eulogies were beautiful. One of those times that I wish I had really known her. I know her daughter well, she's a good friend. I've been to other friend's parent's funerals but I have to say this was the saddest. There was a heartbreak there that one rarely sees. The kind of thing that makes you realize how much love some people do actually share with one another. That family is close. Incredibly close and from the way it sounds, their mother is the one who showed them how to be that way.

I am grateful to Gail for having raised her daughter to be such a good person. And my friend.

The rabbi was really, really good. Don't let her light go out. That was the main component that struck me. And I will do my best. She loved so bountifully and so clearly. I hope I can do her a small honor and I hope she knows that even in death she is an inspiration.