"Doan put your sweety there... dem will tief it" she said, and I remember it like it was yesterday. It's been almost two decades that she said these words to me and perhaps 7 years since she passed away peacefully at the Kingston Public Hospital. She embodied strength...grace...and at times she personified happiness. Always greeted you with a smile, despite her numerous challenges, her failing health and her hair falling out in clumps. Struggling to make it up the hill to work after enduring painful hours of chemotherapy the night before.