FROM: Link
Aug 17 @ 2:19 AM

Dad – I thought I should share this with you…

—–Forwarded Message—–
FROM: Deanna
To: Link REF: Emergency Prayer Request

Hi….I just read this…so glad things worked out today. You know…on the way to school today I was praying about your mom and I just started crying so hard and pleading with God to let her make it and make a full recovery …even though I didn’t know she was in anymore trouble…my heart was leading me to pray for more years with her…I didn’t want you or anyone to go through that pain of losing your mom… Link, I think you should get back out there soon and encourage her not to give up.. I love you, Deanna

FROM: Lance
Aug 17 @ 2:42 AM

Glory to God, father. How are you holding up?

REPLY FROM: Larry Vaughn
Aug 17 @ 8:54 AM

Not bad for a guy that’s having his insides ripped out practically every day. Oh, but wait . . . so is mom! Hm-m-m-m. Can’t complain, I guess. I appreciate all the support. I feel sometimes like I could just go crawl in a dark hole somewhere and forget everything. But, then I realize I would still have to come out to go to the store for chocolate. So, we carry on. 

FROM: Gracie
Aug 17 @ 10:32 AM

Dearest Sweet Larry, First and foremost, I am connected to you for some reason. When Sheila read that picture for Karen about my sister Lolly, (Laura), none of us at that time including Lolly knew she was terminally ill. She was going to a chiropractor because she was experiencing severe lower back pain which we all thought was her arthritis flaring up again. She’d been told previously she had some in her lower back. Yet Sheila told us her soul wanted to go home.

A few weeks later we learned of her cancer returning with a vengeance and how her time was limited. Lolly had much unfinished business with hurts and harsh feelings she’d buried deep within, yet through that year of fighting her cancer with chemotherapy and radiation, so much spiritual healing occurred, she made peace with many even more so with herself.

The night she passed she appeared to be in deep sleep. My daughter Dana, who is an R.N. spent that night with her as she had several others. Lolly’s husband, Jim, told us Lolly passed shortly after Dana left. The reason I’m telling you this: Lolly passed over in Late June of that year and my Mother passed three weeks later. Lolly was the playful comic in our family, adored by all. My, the stories we still continue to tell, and what a gap she left when she passed.

She made her presence known to many of us shortly after her passing but no one experienced this more than did Laura, Cory’s wife. I got a scolding from her through Laura who knew nothing about what she was told to tell me. Laura tried very hard to ignore Lolly. She found this experience a bit frightening but Lolly was persistent yet very playful with her. Someday Laura can tell you all she experienced. I will tell you this one.

We decided in December of that year to have a surprise Birthday Party for my daughter Dana who was turning 40. Laura was awakened one night hearing words in her head, they persisted so she wrote them down. It was the cutest, sweetest poem written for my daughter Dana to be given to her at her Birthday Party. A poet Laura’s not, nor did she know of the happenings that were mentioned in this poem.

First part of the poem came from my mother who spoke of her and Dana’s Grandpa’s love for her and they recalled on one occasion when Dana came walking into their living room as a toddler showing her shiny, tiny, little hiny. I always wiped her following her pooping with a warm wash cloth but on this occasion she’d taken herself. Here she came, walking into Mom’s living room with several family members present, a hand grasped about each ankle and her little butt extended in the air, saying, “Wipe Me!” Laura asked me what this meant.

Next, my sister Lolly stated how much she enjoyed Dana’s last night with her, saying, “I bet you didn’t know.” The party was mentioned and they said they’d be there, and to dry up those tears. It was signed off. ‘The Fabulous Three’, Granny, Papa, and Aunt Lolly. We had the poem scripted and framed and it was given to Dana at her party. There wasn’t a dry eye there, including Dana’s.

Blake, Laura and Cory’s little boy was extremely physic for the first four years of his life. It has diminished now but I see it returning later in his life. Even though this might seem strange to you, keep your mind open to all things, God is only limited by how little we make Him. ALL things are possible to him that believeth. I send this to you in total Love. P.S. Sheila’s note is below

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FROM: Sheila

I’m not sure why it took me sooooo long to read this but I’ve been carrying this around with me since you sent it. When I first looked at the picture I felt that she was someone that I knew. I feel that she is happy where she is. Which isn’t in that body. I think that this is all about Larry. I get the impression that Lea is staying to help him understand that. To help us all understand that. I feel a sense of relief and peace in my thoughts.

FROM: Kim
Aug 17 @ 2:56 PM

Please tell Lea we’re keeping her bamboo plant watered and it looks pretty good. We miss her and pray for her every day. She’s not to waste one bit of energy worrying about anything at work. April and Shana are doing a great job and we’re all pitching in wherever needed. Everything’s going well.

Tell Lea, the music they’ve been playing lately is a little better, but we miss our “dance floor” Ask her if she remembers April and Lucy breaking into an impromptu waltz one day last winter. Also please tell her
Nancy Ogle was in for a quick visit yesterday and looks really good. She said to send her love and good wishes! Sorry so short, but gotta go……take care and lots of love to you both!

FROM: Barb S
Aug 17 @ 4:00 PM

Hi! Hope you’re feeling a little better today. I thought you were going to have to move over and make room for me today! I had 14 kids (to babysit)! Boy! Am I ready for school to start! Only 5 more days. Hope I don’t have any days like today again! Not only did I have 14 kids but it is also a full moon! Need I say more! LOL

Larry and Den are working inside remodeling a kitchen right now. You might know, now that it has cooled down. When it was 100+, they were roofing! Are they Dumb or what! Caitlin and Tyler are getting excited about school. Caitlin is in the 3rd and Tyler the 5th. It doesn’t seem possible. Write more later.

FROM: Lion Tom
Aug 17 @ 11:11 PM
Lion Larry; PDG Lee is keeping us updated on Lea, I hope everything turns out fine and you both return home real soon. Our prayers are with both of you. We are starting to plan our fall projects and we were wondering about (putting our concession in your lawn at the B&B during) the Atlanta Earth Festival, what are your thoughts? Is there anything that the Lions can do to help you?

REPLY FROM: Larry Vaughn
Aug 17 @ 11:23 PM

Tom, Plan to use the yard as we have done in the past. Even if the house should sell, we will make it a condition of the purchase. Remind me in mid-September to have the power to the back yard turned back on. It is currently turned off.

FROM: Link
Aug 17 @ 11:38 PM

I found it… SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME (SIRS)