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« on: May 24, 2012, 02:12:57 AM »
Not sure where to put this since it is off topic. My mother passed away today from ALS. She was diagnosed in late February 2012 and already in the late stages of Bulbar onset. She had lost about 90 % of her ability to speak and swallow as well as most of her ability to walk in the past week. She was ready to go and asked me yesterday to pray she passed soon. My mother was the reason I became interested in Dark Shadows and I regret she never came to one of the fest with me. During the time period Dark Shadows was on TV we talked about Barnabas Collins like he was a member of our family. She loved hearing about the cast when I would return from a festival and what they were all up to. It was a blessing she passed in peace surrounded by her four children and in her own bed.