Reply #20: God, I can echo this experience, Ninkasi!

[DemExpat]

My hard-nosed Repub (old style!) Dad was also stern, authoritarian, downright mean and cruel at times in our lives, but when my younger sister and I took him home from the nursing home to die from a brain tumor in 1997, he demonstrated his immense gratitude and love for us with his eyes....it was bittersweet because we all would have loved to see those loving eyes all our lives instead of the mean ones....:cry:

The morning before he died I was standing by his bed and he reached for my hand and brought it to his lips and kissed it.....:cry:
:loveya:

What a mix of sorrow and joy that whole time was! The joy far outweighed the sadness.

DemEx