Secrets

Dear person who posted this secret on http://postsecret.blogspot.com/,


Thank you. Thank you so much. My Grandpa always smelled like Wrigley's Spearmint gum and coffee. I don't have many physical things to hold and think about Grandpa. Knowing I wouldn't receive anything from his wife, the day he died I left his house still holding a cup of coffee, a cup in the style he always used. I still use it on occasion, though it always scares me to put it in the microwave (gotta heat up the milk). Well I have one other thing of Grandpa's....as we were leaving the funeral home the director ran up to Hubby and I and handed me a clean, neatly folded, faded purple flat sheet...this apparently was the sheet he died on. It never fails to remind me of him, but....

After I saw your secret I explained to Hubby that I could have sent it in. So of course, the next time I sent him to the store for something we were missing for the dinner I'd planned, he came back with a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Looked a little different, they must've changed the packaging, but one sniff was all it took.

Everytime I grab a piece to freshen my coffee breath or see the packaging or notice a minty smell on something that happened to be near the gum in my bag, I feel a little bit closer to him.

Thank you.