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Ann Shepard (Rueve)
Susan, I am so sorry for the sudden loss of your daughter. It's the type of loss that abruptly changes your whole way of being. We too, in 1997, lost my husband's eldest son,Eddie from a massive heart attack. He was 35 yrs old, with a promising career as an equine neonatologist at one of the formost veterinary clinics in Versailles, KY. Only two years previously, he married the love of his life, in her home town in County Wexford, Ireland.
While we were preparing for the services for Eddie, the news of Princess Diana's death came. These two events are indelibly linked in my memory. I must say that Eddie's memorials were quite extensive as well, with three visitations, including an Irish wake and a mass over three days in Lexington and funeral procession from Lexington to his burial at Spring Grove Cemetary in Cincinnati. I'll never forget a remark made by one of Eddie's bosses that brought a smile to the tearful at the funeral, while talking about Eddie's passion for horses. He said the horses loved to "talk" to him and called him "DOCTOR ED".
The heartache never goes away, but as you said, you either get through or you don't. We were fortunate to have support from family and friends.
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