When your friend becomes your family, you help their children when they die. Please help.

• Laura Smith
• January 21, 2016
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One more follow up to my last story about my dear friend who has passed.  You can read about that here:

Under the Influence.  Goodbye Sarah.  RIP

Many highschool friends, most highschool friends, remain just that.  Friends you had in highschool. But sometimes, if you’re lucky, one of your highschool friends turns out to be a sister.  As it turned out, I was one of those lucky people.

When the yearbooks were signed and the promises to stay in touch were made, my dear friend Sarah and I kept that promise to each other.  I’m sure many best friends talk about how they are family.  When you are young, I imagine we say this a lot, but then you grow older and you realize family is always there, but friends are fleeting.  They might have the best of intentions, but in the end, the people who are left in your corner are usually your family.

Turns out, Sarah was not only a friend, but she was my family too.  Always in my life until her tragic end.  It goes without saying then, that the love I had for her, and the love she had for me indisputably spread to our children.  Children are an extension of their parent, and if you love the parent, you can’t help but love the child.  It just comes with the territory.

I held Sarah’s first child at the hospital

And she held mine

Naturally they would be friends.  They couldn’t not be, we thought.

I attended baptisms and birthdays

 

 

She attended my kids’ birthdays and baby showers

…and then we lived life.  Not as friends.  No way.  We’ve been through too much for that.  As family.  As sisters.

Zoos

Halloween

Pool days

I could go on.  I told another friend, how can I capture all those memories? How can I adequately convey what they all meant?

All I know to do now is help her boys.  I love them, even if they never remember me.  To help them, is to continue Sarah’s memory.  Please help me help them.

A fund has been set up.  Many of you have asked what you can do and this is it.

Oh my heart, look at them.  This is the last time they went to the zoo with their mother about a week before she died. Please help them.  They have been living in poverty.  They are with their father now, but he too makes so little money and doesn’t even have a car to get them to school.

Please go here and donate.  Please.

https://www.youcaring.com/clive-dall-jack-dall-507010

 

Much love,

Laura