I think of you with every breath that I take, still as bewildered and lost today as I was 365 days ago. A year later, it is still very hard to comprehend that something like this could happen, that a beautiful life could just vanish from this world. A year later, the nagging questions still remain unanswered. Why you? Why you had to get sick? Why you had to go so early? And more fundamentally, on a deeper level, questions about life itself and about God and so on.
You were a remarkable wife, mother, grandmother, artist, designer, shrewd businesswoman and irreplaceable friend to so many. All those who were touched by you remember you and miss you every day. To me personally, you were so many things, you were the light of my life, a friend and a partner made in heaven. I was blessed to have earned the trust and unconditional love of someone like you and this will always remain the crowning achievement of my life. I remember you once said to me that if I would ever need your heart, I wouldn't need to ask twice. Today, you do not live in the physical world but you will always live in my heart.