I remember Mama
With her kind and gentle ways
The love and care she gave us
In the Golden yesterdays
She was a charming woman
with an elfin quality
that stamped itself upon your soul
and in your memory.
We didn't have her very long
As she hadn't come to stay.
But the memories she left us
Will never go away.

Bernice Pedersen

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