My father had a spokesperson for the past 62 years, and we thought it only fitting that as we honor my mother today that she continue to speak for him. This is a note that Marie dictated two weeks before her death. <\/p>\n
To all my precious children:<\/em><\/p>\n As a little girl, what I wanted the most was to be a mother – and with you and the rest of the children my dreams have been fulfilled. My Mother told me that all I ever talked about was having 10 cats, 10 dogs and 10 kids! With you and the blessing of others who have shared their children, all my dreams have come true.<\/em><\/p>\n I have the most precious children who will help make the world a better place. You know how much I love you. Please remember that I will sit on your shoulder to watch over you.<\/em><\/p>\n Love,<\/em><\/p>\n Marie Havens<\/em><\/p>\n December 16, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n Marie sent this not only to her biological children, Tom and me, but to a total of 29 people that she claimed as her children<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My father had a spokesperson for the past 62 years, and we thought it only fitting that as we honor my mother today that she continue to speak for him. This is a note that Marie dictated two weeks before her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}