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I have worked many different jobs in my lifetime. One of my favorites was when I was a manager at a large bookstore. I worked there for almost 10 years and have seen a lot. There are many stories from my time there, which I’m sure I will share with you sometime. But for now I will share one of my most memorable moments. A few years back while working up at the front customer service desk I had a young man and his friend come up to me looking for a book called “The Source.” So I log into my computer and start to search up “The Source.” There were literally hundreds of titles with the name “The Source.” I asked him if he knew who the author was, No. I kept trying to get information from him about this book, “The Source.” Finally after about 10-15 minutes he tells me that he wants to become a rapper and he’s looking for a book that has different words with the same meaning so he didn’t have to use the same word over and over. He said his friend told him that there was a book called “The Source” that would help him. All of a sudden it dawned on me what he was looking for. Can any of you guess what the book he was looking for was call? I looked at him seriously and said, “Do you mean a Thesaurus?” At that moment the friend that was with him started cracking up, I mean he was laughing so hard that he was almost on the ground. This poor guy was so embarrassed, I felt really bad for him. I just told him to follow me and I took him upstairs to where we kept all of our reference books. When we got there I handed him a Webster’s Thesaurus and told him that I hope everything works out for him. I have always wondered what ever happened to that guy, did he ever make it as a rapper? 

I was going to tell you about the day that I lost my mom. I had it all typed up and ready to post. But I changed my mind, I mean I’m glad that I typed it up and got it all out, but do I really need to share the details of the worst day of my life? The short answer is no, I don’t need to go over what happened that day. What I do want to share is that it has been three years and it still sucks! March 2, 2018 was the day that I joined this exclusive club that nobody wants to be a part of.  Losing my mom. She was not perfect by any means, but she was my mom. We had plenty of ups and downs, but she was always there for me and I knew she loved me. She was the person I called when I had a bad day, or needed to know how to cook something. My mom was an amazing cook. I have some messages on my phone from her that I will keep forever, and on one of them she is talking about a recipe that we had been talking about. To this day I wish I could remember what recipe it was. After her passing it took it really hard. I was very depressed and stopped taking my diabetes medication. It wasn’t a good time for me. I ended up seeing a therapist and that was the best thing I could have done. The therapist told me a good way to get through my feeling was to write letters to my mom. So I have a journal that I write to my mom in whenever there is something I want to tell her. It has helped tremendously. The best thing that has helped me was that my youngest grandson Gunner was born on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Now instead of it being a super sad day for me, it is a happy day for me. Don’t get me wrong, I still am sad on that day, just now I have something to celebrate.