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Remember, remember the fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
 

Today’s blog is a little off the path of campaigning, but has to do with the date of November 5th, which is election Day this year. As many of you know, my son Morris passed away last year on November 5th, shortly before his 22nd birthday. Morris’s death was unexpected, it was ultimately found out that he died from a blow to the head and died shortly afterwards in his sleep. Not to complain, but I have not had an easy life, I lost both my parents very, very young within two years of each other. I raised a disabled child and had cancer myself. I lived through a really volatile and abusive marriage. In my personal opinion, nothing compares to losing your child and you can never fully realize this until you are one of the many broken hearted parents who have suffered this tragic loss. It is like having a hole in your heart, waking you up at night hardly able to take a breath. It is awful nightmares and sleepless nights, it is just plain horrible.
  Now, what you may not know is that November 5th is my daughter, Jessica’s birthday. Yes, the morning her brother was found dead, was her actual birthday day. Yesterday I found a note that was on flowers that were left for her by one of her best friends, unknowingly, that her brother was found dead in his sleep that early morning. Remember, Remember the fifth of November. When Jessica saw the flowers and the note, she knew that she would never, ever forget that date- especially that morning. I asked Jessica what the significance was of that phrase, and she explained that her and her friends saw it in a movie they watched years ago. So yesterday, when I found that note that accompanied those innocent birthday flowers, I googled the phrase. It was in the movie “V for Vendetta” that came out in 2005- the year Jessica graduated from High School. I never saw the movie, nor never heard of the move. The movie used the phrase in reference to Guy Fawkes Night- never heard of it myself.  Yet, for months now, that phrase was stuck in my head.   Here is where the phrase comes from- I copied this right off Wikipedia.  

Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.


I will always remember November 5th, being in 1986 it was one of the best days of my life when I gave birth to my beautiful daughter. It was the worst day of my life in 2012, when my son died. This year, who knows what November 5th will bring with the Mayoral election? I can promise you this- It will never be better than the day my daughter was born, it will never be worse than the day my son died. It will just be an election day… the one thing I can tell you for sure, I will always….Remember, Remember the 5th of November.
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