notes

Losing someone close to us is painful. That's why the idea of ghosts-- of being able to communicate with the dead, is more comforting than scary for me. Ghosts bring back the life and the love we had and make us feel that these still go on, that we are still with our loved one.

Elena Desserich passed away two years ago yet she is very much alive in her family's heart. No, her ghost isn't haunting them, but her presence is still felt in their house. She found another way to extend her love. Before she gave in to cancer, she hid little notes all over the place containing messages for everyone close to her, including her great-aunt's dog.

"We started to collect them and they would all say 'I love you Mom, Dad and Grace.' We kept finding them, and still to this day, we keep finding them," Keith Desserich told WLWT television in their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. “We were finding them in our briefcases, we were finding them in our books, we were finding them in our dresser drawers, we started finding them in Christmas ornament bags.” Elena hid a lot of notes, and so far her parents were able to fill three containers with them.

"Finding them felt like a little hug from her, like she was telling us that she was looking over us even though she wasn’t with us.”, said her mom, Brooke.

Aside from the hidden notes, Elena also gave each of her parents a sealed one, which they do not plan to open.

“That’s our one insurance policy, that we’ll have that one note from her,” Brooke told Meredith Vieira from TODAY. “I know there’s something very special in that note — but there’s some sort of comfort that it will never come to an end.”

from Elena

Sources:
http://www.notesleftbehind.com/
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33505351/ns/today-today_books/?gt1=43001