That is very beautiful.

My heartfelt condolences, to you and your family.

Thanks all. I feel confident enough to go ahead and send it now. And it helps a lot to have written it. I now know that I will be OK with my decision not to return.

Beestie, I love the re-write, but unfortunately it doesn't "sound" like me (especially the "gotten" -one Americanism I have yet to/refuse to pick up :lol:). I do hope you write professionally, though, because that is beautiful. Thanks for your help and consideration.

What you wrote was beautiful in its own right and my version was in no way a judgement of your heartfelt verse. Just something I wanted to do.

I took it in exactly the way you intended it and it touched me that you spent time on it, thanks. :)