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'Sam's Farewell Day' This page is continued on from 'Our Last Night'... The following pages will take you through Our Samuel's Funeral Day ~The day we had to say 'Farewell'...
We awoke early, knowing in our hearts that today was the day that we had to say 'Farewell' to our beautiful angel... Through the tears and the pain, we prepared ourselves for the morning ahead. 'Time was running out'... Andrew carried Samuel~Jack downstairs where we sat with him in our arms, having precious last cuddles and kisses... We took many, many photos on this morning, capturing every last little memory that we could of our sweet angel Sam... You can see some of these photos on Our Photos Link. We had asked that everyone go straight to the Church on this morning... We needed to have this 'special time' just on our own to say 'goodbye' to our Samuel... Sophie & Ben said their goodbyes in their own little ways. Andrews cousin Perry and partner Jane popped in just to make sure everything was OK before they went ahead to the Church.
The photograph below is of Perry and myself, shortly before leaving to go to the church...
'So much pain'...
Perry then took one last photo of all of us together, just before our Funeral Director John arrived... March 4th 2002 ~ 9.00am
Andrew, Sophie, Ben & Myself all gave our Samuel a lifetime of 'love' & 'kisses' in the last few minutes before we had to leave... Our hearts were broken and I didn't know if we had the strength to get through this morning... I laid Samuel back in his Moses Basket, tucked him in nice & snug and my arms 'ached' to pick him back up again... This was the last time I would be laying my sweet baby in his little bed... I remembered so clearly doing these exact things just a mere 15 months previous with our angel~Jack... My heart was yearning for my babies to still be with us... How was I going to let another of my sweet babies 'go'... We took these last few minutes to memorise 'everything' about our sweet angel, to hold in our hearts, forever... At 9.10am, our funeral Director John arrived... Through the tears and heartbreak, I carried our Samuel in his Moses Basket out to the car... Sophie, Ben & Andrew followed... The door closed behind us, and we started to make our way to the Church...
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