Almost 30 years...I was your ride from Thornbury to Collingwood for the Redirecting Your Future course. It was for people that had either become unemployed due to the downturn or needed skills and assessment to move forward and attain decent employment. Almost two years ago, driving you back to Calgary from Winnipeg. It was a great trip, lots of laughs...you were reunited with your cat Sparky and I kept her former companion Lucy. You were as upset over her passing as I was. She was too young. You were too young.

I can't take it in that you're actually gone, Irene.

You'll always be here in my memory and my heart for as long as I live.