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rhino_neil ([personal profile] rhino_neil) wrote2014-09-08 04:13 pm

45 years on - a brief tibute if I may (Post copied from FB.)

45 years ago on a Monday morning, much as today Frances went into hospital, she already had two sons, the loss of a child she had never met and a difficult man to live with. Her final son was unplanned, but at 4 pm Neil was born. Maybe one day earlier that summer she had heard another Neil take one small step for mankind. I like to think so. Five short years later cancer took her from her sons. So a reminder of the girl with a guitar, the cycling scout-mistress, the woman who took a camera everywhere 50 years before the rest of us. A woman of faith and a mother to the end. Thanks Mum x
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[personal profile] little_frank 2014-09-08 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday Neil :-)

One small step for a 45 year old man...

[identity profile] rhino-neil.livejournal.com 2014-09-08 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Small step? I've walked about 5 miles today!
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[personal profile] little_frank 2014-09-09 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

[identity profile] san-valentine.livejournal.com 2014-09-10 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
That's a lovely post. I had no idea you lost your mother so young, but it's a lovely tribute to her.