The most important lesson was love.
Special Note: This was started in March of 2014 and finished in August of 2014. I recently lost a friend to cancer and pulled this back out to read. The lessons I learned are still with me 6 years later.
I lost my Mom when I was 21 years old. That is 16 years ago from when I am writing this blog post. I have to write that out because it is amazing it has…