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My friend Anne.

There is a lot to say about my friend Anne. I would like you to get to know her. Anne and I became friends when she started working for my dad's car and truck rentals and leasing business. I would look forward to those times of the day, when we would catch a smile and make jokes but I knew Anne long before we worked together. Anne and family grew up with our family and I don't remember a time when they were completely out of our lives. I saw her children grow up, in fact we grew up together. We have found memories of when both our families drove down to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and the Fraze "Evening all, it Connie's fault became very popular" referring to something private. The reason why I have fond memories of working with Anne despite the fact that our families were life long friends, was because it was in my early 20's that my life had changed as I had become a born again Christian.

I never really talked about my faith at work and because Anne knew me as a child, she was sort of a mother figure to me, even though she was my friend. In 1999 I was diagnosed with a serious mental illness and ended up in the hospital. Anne was one of the first people to comfort me during my time of crisis. Being in the Hospital for me was like a new beginning. I felt like I had been born again all over again, and I think Anne knew that. We never talked about what happened to me in the hospital and I somehow wish we did, and we lost touch for a while as my own family was going through one of the greatest tests that any family could go through. But we stuck together, after we moved from our family home and into an uncomfortable area of York Region as we all were dealt the blows of being human in a fallen word.

My pain is not different from yours if you can believe that, I feel things very deeply, a quality that I learnt from my friend Anne. The last time I saw Anne I wasn`t doing to well, but it was at her daughter`s wedding. It was a strange time for me. But I like to remember the fun times I had with Anne, she will always be my friend and even if she is no longer physically with us, I take her spirit in mine and say..Thank you Anne, I will always remember you for who you were and who you always will be, My Friend Anne. I love you.

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