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The Family reunion was a raving success. Yay! Got to swim, tan, chat w/ the fam. They are all so excited about me doing hospice, especially since Aunt Annette is not doing very well health wise. She got put in a nursing home yesterday. Southern Pines can no longer provide the services she needs to maintain her current health. It's sad. She has the same problems as Nanny did, but is 10 years younger. Her kids are in denail. I have a feeling they think she's just gonna jump out of it and recover, but I don't think she will. I'll miss her. She's the closest thing I've got right now to Nanny and there is so much I want to ask her. I'm going to start visiting her, I'm sure she'll enjoy the company and I'll enjoy the knowledge gained from her. I want her to teach me things. Things I wasn't patient enough for Nanny to teach me. Like knitting or crocheting. Things that Nanny loved, but I always thought I would learn later in my life. Now I'm dying to learn and I have no teacher. I want to ask her what Nanny was like when she was my age, how she changed through the years, what it was like growing up back then. I have so many unanswered ??'s. Sue wants to talk to Becky about admitting Aunt Annette to Hospice, if so, she might be under my care as a volunteer which wouldn't be a bad thing, I guess. I don't know if I can take going through that firsthand again w/ a family member. Might be better to be paired up w/ someone I don't know. I've really been thinking a lot about the Elizabeth Foundation lately and how I can get it started. I need to talk to someone about what it takes to get something like that started on campus and if any professors in the Psyc department and otherwise would be interested in helping me. Matt said he's all for helping me since he knows what it's like to first hand deal with the death of a loved one. He's going to school to be a minister, maybe he can work on a campus wherever he decides to live. I want the E.F. to be on campus's across the nation. That's my goal. Start at VSU and work out from there. Hold seminars, group therapy, private counseling...anything that will help mourning college students deal and get through school a little easier. I would like for it to be Christian based and non-denominational. If not, at least provide Christian and non-Christian counselors for students. I've been trying to just make some plans and I jot down notes when I think of an idea. I had ton of ideas today about it as I was driving Market Diner food to the reunion. Yum, too bad I was driving...oh well...I was going to name it the Sara foundation, but only if I can come up w/ some acronym to the letters SARA. I just think Elizabeth Foundation rolls off the tongue a little better. I def. know that wherever it starts up, I'm going to have a big picture of her up. Her face will be known. She always wanted to be in the limelight and loved attention, so I'm going to give it to her. I think if I can get some funds and get Sue to write some grants for me, I'll have no problem starting this up when I finish school. I'm gonna start working on it now. It's something I really want to do.