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From: Debbie Sawczak
To: 'Lance Muir'
Sent: January 21, 2006 08:32
Subject: funeral In about 15 minutes I am going to Toronto to the funeral
of Frau Bertsch, an old family friend who I think was in her 90s. She was
one of my mother's night school ESL students when I was a little girl.
She seemed old then already, but was always extremely cheerful, always
smiling and laughing, even when she got quite old and was often in pain. She was
a vibrant Christian. She always brought us stuff on her visits when were
kids--great German gingerbread cookies, candy, and toys--and would always bend
down and grab my cheek in greeting. When I was about 6 she brought me
a large doll which became my favourite because its body was not hard holllow
plastic but made of a sort of firm rubber. It must have been about half as tall
as me. Once on an outing to Niagara Falls with us Frau Bertsch said happily,
"Vee haff such nice times togezza!" and it became a family saying. When
Caspian was a baby she said he had "einen musikalischen Kopf", that is, a
musical head, meaning its physical shape; well, he is a musician, so I
guess she was right!
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