A few weeks ago, three children in Moreno Valley, California, released a trio of colorful, helium-filled Mylar balloons into the sky. Attached to each was a handwritten, heartbreaking letter.
“Hi Mom, I miss you,” one letter read. “I hope you come and visit me soon because I have questions to ask, like why you had to leave…”
Each of the letters carried a small expression of the children’s grief. Their mother, 42-year-old Renee Finney, had recently lost a two-year battle with cancer. She’d passed away five days before Mother’s Day.
The children, ages 16, 18 and 25, had spent Mother’s Day weekend trying to raise the funds to give their mom a proper funeral. But even with a bake sale and car wash, they raised only a fraction of what they needed. The balloons were just a simple sendoff, but the best they could do to honor their beloved mom.
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