Alyse's mom didn't die in six weeks as the doctor predicted, but she survived another year and a half. When her mother passed away and they had her funeral, Alyse was trying to explain to her daughter who was three at the time that she would not be hearing from grandma anymore. Alyse was having a hard time coping with her mother's death because she realized that she didn't want her mother to die, and she even called her house as if expecting her to answer. When Alyse's daughter was fifteen years old, her friend's father passed away. Alyse's daughter is telling her what happened and whenever Alyse says something to comfort her, she just tells Alyse that she doesn't know about death or she wouldn't understand, which Alyse finds strange because both of her parents died. Alyse feels distance between her and her daughter, so she tries to bond with her by opening what was in a box that her mother gave her before she died. When they open it, they find all these letters that Alyse's father wrote to her mother. In it Alyse notices something different than what she witnessed living in her parent's house...her father actually loved her mother. Her and her daughter read all the letters together, looked at photos of them when they were younger, and Alyse was shocked when she saw letters that she wrote to her mom stored in that box. She realized that her mother actually cared about her, and she felt regret for all the trouble she caused her in the past. She was proud to say that she was her mother's daughter.
"May you live to be 100 years. May I live to be a 100 years, less one day, so that I may never know you passed away." (Myers, 239).
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This quote was in one of the letters Alyse's father wrote to her mother. I thought it was very sweet and touching. It was a cute poetic way of saying that he wants them to live a long time, but as long as he's alive, he doesn't want to live a day without her. I know if a guy said that to me I would feel special. I was shocked when I read this quote because as much as Alyse's parents used to argue, its hard to think that when they were younger they were crazy in love like this. Another thing I found interesting about this quote is that Alyse said he got part of his wish. He died before she did, which was what he wanted, but neither of them lived to be 100 years old.
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