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Subject: Re: Don't Lose Heart

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mountainbird

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Date Posted: 12/16/08 5:50am
In reply to: Kelly 's message, "Re: Don't Lose Heart" on 12/16/08 4:54am

Thanks, Kelly, for all the links. From what I can see of the times you posted, you had the same kind of night I had.

I just wanted to share, since you provided the lyrics to "Don't Lose Heart," that the following lines are on the back on my mother's headstone. It took me 15 months to narrow my choice. I think it says it all.

"Just remember when the road gets dark
I will always be beside you"

Hang tight, Everybody. Today might be a bumpy ride.

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Author: Lori [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12/16/08 9:03am Mountainbird, I have never looked at those words before............I know I have read them, but never felt them before. My life is kind of crazy right now, I feel them now. Thank you.

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mountainbird
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Date Posted: 12/16/08 3:23pm

Lori, I listened for months while the headstone sat waiting. The front was ready but I refused to have it placed without something of Dan's on the back. He had written so many beautiful and poignant words. I played album after album over and over and then it happened. I was cleaning my house only half listening to songs I knew by heart and that line literally stopped me in my tracks. I had found it. The quotation marks are 8th notes and "Dan Fogelberg" is on its own line at the end. It's beautiful in its mystery. Is it from my mother to me or from me to my mother? To this day I don't have an answer.

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Author: Kelly [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12/18/08 11:35am Such a beautiful inscription. Seems it was meant to be, since the words found you when you weren't even looking.....maybe the same way they once found Dan. Love your idea for the eighth notes. Perfect choice.