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Please help me lay my wife to rest

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My beautiful wife of 15 years is about to lose her fight with brain
cancer.  She is leaving behind our 5 children ages 17, 13, 10, 6, 3. 

You can see her here full of life and love. 


When Rae was first diagnosed we were living in Michigan and her dream was to die and be buried in her adopted home of Tennessee. Through hard work and so much help, I was able to move our family here and she was able to be in her "forever home" for a few short weeks.  

Rae is a fighter, she is tough and stubborn, her diagnosis of a high-grade glioma has an average of 15-month survival rate. At this time she made it to16 months   She is in hospice and has stopped eating and drinking.  My partner's life is coming to a rapid end.  

I am not one to beg, and yet here I am asking for your help with laying her to rest one final time. We spent our life's savings on moving to TN and providing a home for her and the kids.  Sadly like weddings funerals are expensive. 

Our plan is to have her cremated and to create a memorial on the property.  This won't be anything crazy,  just a nice bench and a plaque  on a tree where our kids can go anytime to sit and speak to mom. I want them to be able to sit there and tell her about their day, or to share a secret, or to sit and remember the wonderful woman she was before cancer robbed us of her love and laughter.  

I'd like you to know her a bit. Rae was full of life and laughter. She was always making people smile. Rae was an artist, first with canvas and paint, and later using vinyl. Rae would surprise friends with gifts for no reason other than she had a great idea for them and wanted to share it. She would go out of her way to make mundane daily tasks fun for me and the kids. She always had something in her purse to keep everyone happy. 

Here is a picture that I think shows her incredible spirit. 



Thank you for taking the time to read this,

Humbly, 
Robert

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Robert Darefsky
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Shelbyville, TN

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