[Gpdd] Re: Announcement: And I thought I would just make a correction

[Off1Knight at aol.com]

I logged on today after realizing  made a mistake in the previous days post 
when I directed a response to Leah, Brownie Bear's mom when in fact it should 
have been directed to Anna, the mother of Toffee and Reese. I did though want 
to tell her mom that I have kept her little girl in my daily prayers. But when 
I read today's post, it turned out that if has been a dark day indeed. I am 
sadly speaking of the passing over the bridge of Jolanda's HARRY and Judi's 
CORKY. The passing of one of our little loved ones is too much in a days reading 
but to see TWO such loved little piggies cross the bridge in the same post is 
almost too much to bear for any of us who relate that loss to our own lives. I 
can only offer my deepest condolences to both Judi and Jolanda on what they 
had to go through to help their loved ones take that first step across the 
bridge. Both of their mom/s let them know that they could not have loved them any 
more than they did not only that day they passed but from their first day in 
their new homes. As I write this, I know Jolanda and Judi will be doing just 
that as many of us all are at this moment. But the difference is their eyes will 
fill with tears for no longer will they have that joy. It is for this, I too 
shed the same tear for one day it will be me announcing what we all fear we 
will one day all have to.  So after remembering that first time your little one 
came home, go pick him or her up and do whatever YOU do to say I LOVE YOU 
little guy. Because if you do this and God forbid it is his or her time to cross 
over the Bridge, you will know as Judi and Jolanda KNOW, that VERY special love 
was never absent for a moment in their lives. I wish I could sit here and say 
one way or the other of of passing was easier to accept. Easier for their 
hearts to bear, or even that the tears will cease sooner for one or the other. But 
I cannot, I can only say if there was a reason for my post yesterday, it may 
have been to help ease the pain even just slightly for both Judi and Jolanda. 
To say you have not held your little boy and girl for the last time by any 
means. They are now well and not suffering for even a moment more. They are 
sitting on the other side of the bridge waiting for those whose love transcends 
time and space. In closing I think they would be saying "Please mommy don't cry 
all your tears for me, I need for you to save SOMEEEE when I meet you on the 
bridge!" Please accept my most sincere condolences.


Sincerely,

Joseph C. petrillo, George the guinea pigs daddy