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Releasing Anger
The Archangels Tell Us How
Last week, I went to close the sale of my current home, and I was very excited. Unfortunately, I received a message from a friend of my late husband who worked at the title company that dampened my enthusiasm. He delivered a message from another friend of my husband’s that was way out of line, telling me to send a guitar that had belonged to my husband to his sick stepson who suffers from MS. The man who sent me this message blames me for my husband’s death, as I’d refused to have him committed to a full-time care facility, where he believed they could make him do his exercises and eat right, etc. That’s not what my husband wanted, and I did not take the legal steps to make it happen.
Without getting into too much detail about something that happened over a decade ago, suffice it to say that a year after my husband’s death, I ended up pressing charges against this person for harassment after a year of putting up with letters and balloons addressed to my dead husband that he placed on my car (after dark), constantly seeing him parked down the block from my house, watching for who knows what, and receiving many messages blaming me for his death at a time when I was myself grieving. His accusations and antics were not only harassment, but they were untrue and unfair, and after promising the detective who was assigned to the case that he wouldn’t…
