Post by cc791 on Mar 21, 2008 12:27:36 GMT -5
Reflections of Theresa
March 21, 2008
For me, 53 weeks ago, Theresa Parker was JUST Richard’s sister. My husband saw her differently though. Bill and Richard have been best friends for years. Long before Bill and I met, that entire family took my Bill in as one of their own.
Fifty-two weeks ago, one year ago today, I started getting to know Theresa Parker. I had met Theresa a few times (usually with at least one of her two sisters attached at the hip!) I wish I could have had the opportunity of getting to know her better. It was obvious that she and her sisters cared deeply for Bill, and I thought that was wonderful. There is a lot of love in that family.
I never got to know Theresa’s dad, but in the past year I feel as if a gentle bond has formed between her mother and me. Claire seems to look on my husband as another son, and I have grown to love her (and worry about her just as I would for his mom in the same situation.) I can’t say I know how she feels, I can only speculate how I would feel if my daughter was taken from me. No mother should ever have to deal with something like this.
Thank you to every one of you who have searched, hoped, and prayed for Theresa’s return over the past year. I know we all wish we could look up and see her walking through the door safe. Perhaps the past year has only been a very bad dream! I so wish that could be true, but I am afraid it is a very sad reality. Now we just need to bring her home to her family so they can begin to have some closure.
Keeping all the family in my prayers,
Carol Cannon
March 21, 2008
For me, 53 weeks ago, Theresa Parker was JUST Richard’s sister. My husband saw her differently though. Bill and Richard have been best friends for years. Long before Bill and I met, that entire family took my Bill in as one of their own.
Fifty-two weeks ago, one year ago today, I started getting to know Theresa Parker. I had met Theresa a few times (usually with at least one of her two sisters attached at the hip!) I wish I could have had the opportunity of getting to know her better. It was obvious that she and her sisters cared deeply for Bill, and I thought that was wonderful. There is a lot of love in that family.
I never got to know Theresa’s dad, but in the past year I feel as if a gentle bond has formed between her mother and me. Claire seems to look on my husband as another son, and I have grown to love her (and worry about her just as I would for his mom in the same situation.) I can’t say I know how she feels, I can only speculate how I would feel if my daughter was taken from me. No mother should ever have to deal with something like this.
Thank you to every one of you who have searched, hoped, and prayed for Theresa’s return over the past year. I know we all wish we could look up and see her walking through the door safe. Perhaps the past year has only been a very bad dream! I so wish that could be true, but I am afraid it is a very sad reality. Now we just need to bring her home to her family so they can begin to have some closure.
Keeping all the family in my prayers,
Carol Cannon