Email from Barbara Ann to Steve:
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From: b.a. barnett <babaccordn@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:39 AM
Subject: Steve, This is important. Please tell the orchestra
Good morning from Santa Cruz where I now reside. I hope you are sitting down and in a good mood, because I have some difficult news to share. I want you and the orchestra members to know I got a lot out of my experience there, and I’m sure you all noticed my ‘bumps’ along the way.
11 days ago I became confused and disoriented while finally getting my 96-year old Mother settled in a GOOD nursing home where I trust she will be taking no more nasty falls. Practically immediately I began to feel confused, was noticed as a disoriented person, swept up in an ambulance, etc. and here I am with terminal brain cancer in one of the most peaceful, copasetic cities you could imagine.
Remembering names is harder now....please give my best always to that trumpeter I enjoyed so much, to the trombonist and to the lovely Russian woman I had wanted to get to know better, to Eric and to dear John.
I do not wish to shock, but sometimes life is shocking and here it is. You all should know that I feel elevated and informed and blessed to be able to experience ‘completion’ with good communication, in very good humor and in the constantly gentle presence of a family, friends, neighbors, early school chums, etc. pouring endless love into me. This is what I would call having the time of my life and it takes my breath away. Be well and DO CARRY ON!! Don’t ever stop carrying on in all your finest ways.
Love & Light,
Barbara Ann Barnett
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