My mother gave me music;

she taught me to sing.

My father showed me courage

and many other things.

Oh, so many years it’s been,

yet, one thing’s never changed

I would give the world to hear

their voices once again!

 How will your loved ones remember you?

Karen Russell's first husband, Michael Press, often left her notes--in her shoes, inside a cereal box.  She was likely to pick up the toilet seat and find a short, irreverent poem. 

A few months after Press unexpectedly died at age twenty-nine, Russell was cleaning her guest bathroom when she found a piece of paper covered with his tiny script at the bottom of a Kleenex box. 

It was not one of his gags, but a letter that began,

"You, Karen, are a special jewel in the universe." 

Press had composed the note expecting to watch his wife live out her dreams, but what he planted under the pile of tissues turned out to be his last testament to his wife. 

"Never doubt yourself, for you possess marvelous talents," he had written. 

The above excerpted from Something to Remember Me By

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