Rickey Lynn

Donating Blood

Money can't buy everything. Now with my spouse desperately needing blood, I finally understand that the only manufacturer of blood is the human body. While the blood bank can provide blood for a cost, I can't go out and buy some in a store to replace it. I can't even donate it because of the medications I am on. We will get through this, but I realize now just how important it is to donate blood. Back when I could have given blood, I always subscribed to the idea that someone else would donate it and they didn't need mine. I was wrong. Giving blood is giving the gift of life, the most precious gift there is, and the most unselfish act there is. I wish I had given when I could have, and I wish I could give now.

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Daughters

Is there anything more rewarding than having loving daughters? I have experienced a full and wonderful life, but nothing can compare to the love and warmth I receive from my daughters. They are as different as night and day, and I don't necessarily agree with each of them all the time, yet each, in their own way, shows me a love that is so deep I cannot begin to fathom it. I cannot begin to think of what a day would be like without them any more than I can think of this world without a sun and/or a moon. They do not give love because it is demanded of them - they offer love because they wish to, and I am all the richer for their love.

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