I believe the three most heart-warming words in the English language are: I. Love. You. My Mom didn't say those words to me often. We just weren't that way. But, if I was hurting over something, she knew. She always made it a point to say those words at exactly the right time. I will cherish the three words she mumbled to me in her soft, breathy voice as she lay in that horrid hospital bed in her living room. I. Love. You. She used those words in an attempt to comfort me, to soothe away my deep pain even as she dealt with her own.


I believe the three most heart-wrenching words in the English language are: My. Mom. Died.