[TI] My Mother

[Laura Johnson]

Brigitt,

What a beautiful message.  I have seen the movie several times.  I am 
named after another character from a  Gene Tierney movie -  Laura. 

bcaito820 at aol.com wrote:
> Laura, I am so sorry.  Did you ever see "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"?  It 
> was an old movie with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison.  She was a young 
> woman in the late 19th/early 20th century who bought an old house on 
> the seashore that had belonged to a sea captain who died.  He haunts 
> her to get her to leave, but she is a stubborn woman who stands up to 
> him and they develop a relationship that turns into deep love.  
> Something happens and his ghost leaves her.  She grows old and one day 
> dies, sitting in her chair in her room...and the young sea captain 
> comes to her chair and reaches out his hand...and the young woman 
> rises from the old woman's body, takes his hand, and they walk away 
> together.  And that is so beautiful a visual...  It helps to think of 
> that-that the suffering, the aging has ended, and now she is at peace 
> with her God and all who have gone before. 
>  
> hugs to you, dear lady.  My deepest sympathy.
>  
> Brigitt