Emma Candy

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Emma, lovely Emma


Emma, you reached across the world to boyfriends and now you reach across the world with your frank and brave web site. We who are so close to you have found it extraordinarily helpful, but every day we find old friends and complete strangers in America, Japan, Australia - everywhere - both touched and helped by that wonderful electronic journal. You truly reach across the world with your generous thoughts and confessions. Emma, you are an inspiration.

I know by the hugs, the fights, the tears, the touches that you loved your mum passionately. Emma, by the same token you leave a great hole in Linda's heart. A mother's loss is indescribable but, Linda, through our own grief our thoughts are with you today. But there are such memories, such joys still, to live on through everything, Emma, you left behind.

“Look what my latest phone can do”. “See the cool stuff at this url”. “I've sent this guy your email address. You must meet.” or “The problem with your latest thing is…”. Emma always there, always ahead, always pushing the limits. Always pushing our limits. Always, thankfully, pushing my limits.
Lovely Emma. You only lived half a life but you lived a full life even so. You did more and you gave more than most could hope for in twice the years.

Raymond Carver wrote the poem 'Late Fragment' when he knew that he was dying of cancer:

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Emma, you were beloved. Emma, you are beloved by us all on this earth.

But please be tolerant of us here today. We celebrate your life. We take great joy in that. But we miss you still. We miss your voice, we miss your texts, we miss your smiles. Emma you are beloved by us all. Now, for ever young and beautiful, forever a life we celebrate.


Ernest


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