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                                        LAURA’S SONG

                                        I hung up the phone
                                        full of dismay
                                        heard the tragic news
                                        that a friend and colleague passed away

                                        What can I say …
                                        What can I say???
                                        It’s sad but true
                                        and there is nothing I can do

                                        Laura’s death
                                        reminds me
                                        how precious life
                                        can truly be

                                        She lost the battle
                                        but won the war
                                        Gave birth to a baby boy
                                        a few weeks before

                                        A beautiful woman
                                        A loving wife
                                        A caring teacher and friend
                                        and a mother of three bundles of joy

                                        They’ll only have
                                        memories of mom
                                        that are shared with them
                                        through stories, pictures and poems

                                        I sing this song
                                        now that she’s gone
                                        so her memory
                                        her memory lives on

                                        The day before
                                        Laura passed away
                                        She wrote these words
                                        on a page:

                                        Opera transforms us
                                        from the mundane
                                        transfigures us from the ordinary.
                                        Nowhere can you find such
                                        gorgeous redemption
                                        beauty in tragedy
                                        joy in sorrow.

                                        Her words live on
                                        even though she’s gone
                                        her words live on
                                        when I sing this song

                                        And I celebrate
                                        the beauty and joy
                                        that continue on
                                        through her two young children and her newborn boy

                                        Her words live on
                                        even though she’s gone
                                        beauty and joy
                                        continue on

                                        And I think of her
                                        when I sing this song
                                        her memory
                                        her memory lives on
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