{"id":165,"date":"2009-05-08T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-05-08T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:51:08","slug":"beverly-everlyentry-for-september-20-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"“Beverly-everly”……….Entry for September 20, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUR beautiful sister Beverly would have been 49 years old today. Some of us called her Beverly-everly…with all the different brother-sister…..sister-sister…brother-brother combinations that we can have……we all have our special combinations……one of mine was George-Beverly-everly. We had a very special relationship that went back very deep. I always wondered why she liked me so much…..or did she just make everyone feel that way? We always had special songs, sayings and memories together. Once, she wanted to take me to Nathan Hale school for show and tell.<\/p>\n

I will never ever forget the time Barb called me at 2oclock in the morning one night and told me “It is time.”
\n“Yes, I know it is time Barb….the time is two o’ freakin clock in the morning….that’s what time it is!”
\nNo, George, it is time for Beverly.
\nOh.<\/p>\n

Oh my God.<\/p>\n

And my drive from Brick to Scotch Plains that early next morning was a blurr.
\nAnd when we walked into the nursing home….where Barb and George Poulo had spent so many hours with Beverly-everly….a nurse said with a smile,
\n“You just missed her!”
\n(Just missed her…..what did she walk out the back door again??)
\nWhen we walked into her room, she was still warm…..but I didn’t recognize her. Her body had been through so much the past few years. And Barb collapsed on my shoulder and cried and sobbed….and everthing was happening too fast for me. I didn’t even understand that she was dead. And once again….I couldn’t cry for someone I loved who had died.
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\nI don’t want to remember Beverly that way. She will always be a perky, adventurous little girl with short brown hair…big big brown eyes….in pajammas…..waking me up on a wonderful Saturday morning to watch cartoons…..while everyone else slept. And she made me a bowl of cereal. And we are laughing and laughing at the stupid black and white cartoons…of mice chasing cats and crazy music….and…I just miss her so very much……Beverly-everly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OUR beautiful sister Beverly would have been 49 years old today. Some of us called her Beverly-everly…with all the different brother-sister…..sister-sister…brother-brother combinations that we can have……we all have our special combinations……one of mine was George-Beverly-everly. We had a very special … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mighty-ten","tag-beverly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}