Jeannette always ate healthy too. After she died one of her very close friends reached out to me. Even though I had never met her I felt real good emailing here and actually I think she was like a coping tool for me. She told me things I never knew.
During Jeannette's final year on this earth and in the month of February, 2009, her friend and her husband and baby came to visit Jeannette in Thousand Oaks, California in her home. Jeannette was so happy to have her friend with her. During one of the days that they spent there this is what was told to me by her friend:
Gloria, I don't want to keep upsetting you but this one incident came to my head a couple of days ago. When we were up visiting and we were having dinner, it was our first night there. Conner didn't want to eat his broccoli and Pat was becoming upset at him. When Conner kept trying to leave Pat grabbed his arm, way too hard for a 6 year old and pulled him back on his chair. Jeannette was in the kitchen putting dishes away. Pat yelled at Conner to, "Eat your veggies because you don't want to end up with cancer and die like your mother!!" Those words felt like a bow was shot into my chest. I looked over at Jeannette and she felt the same as I did, although her eyes were filled with tears and was glaring at Pat with all of the hatred in the world. How dare he say that to anyone? Then to say it in front of my family while we're visiting Jeannette on her last months with us? And to her youngest child to top it off? Yeah, that really was painful. He is such a horrible person.
I knew Pat was a ugly person when I first saw him!! I could tell he was no good!!! Jeannette was truly a wonderl woman and he was lucky to have her..to bad he never realized it!!.....
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