<p>Another candle lit for you, Sunrise. Rest in peace.</p>
<p>Rest in Peace Sunrise. You won’t be forgotten. </p>
<p>Prayers for your family and friends.</p>
<p>A last candle lit, RIP Sunrise.</p>
<p>One last candle.</p>
<p>Another candle. So sorry and so sad.</p>
<p>Lit another candle for Sunrise. Wishing peace and comfort to her family.</p>
<p>Another last candle for the memory of Sunrise</p>
<p>I just lit a candle for Sunriseast. May she rest in peace. May her family find comfort in knowing just how much she loved them.</p>
<p>One last candle for our life teacher, Sunrise, and her wonderful family.</p>
<p>Dear “virtual” friends of Sunriseeast,
I am a IRL friend. I just wanted to say, don’t underestimate the depth of comfort, friendship and support you gave Sunriseeast. Cancer is a lonely journey. Her kids were in college much of the time, her husband kept working so that they could hold onto their health insurance. Her professional identify by necessity had to go. Friends came by regularly, but there must have been a lot of lonely days for her. You truly became her friends, too, in a very sacred way that I had not realized until today, when for the first time I went back and read several of her entries. I realized as I read that the anonymity of this group gave her the freedom to share more deeply than she was often able to do with her IRL friends. She had always been fiercely independent, but as the cancer progressed, she had to learn to receive help and love from those of us around her (that “undeserved stuff” that she used to write about). I think, now, after reading those posts, you became a safe haven for her to explore her feelings about all of this and in the process to grow and be transformed in really beautiful ways. You were a huge blessing to her, and by extension, to all of us in her “real life.” May you go on in your “real” and “virtual” lives to bless others as you blessed her. In deep gratitude, bentshaftpaddle (a type of paddle used for canoeing on still waters)</p>
<p>What a beautiful gift you have just bestowed on this community…how moving to realize the power of anonymity and the power of human connection. </p>
<p>Sent from my MB865 using CC</p>