Plan A
July 02nd, 2019 by John Mansfield
My wife, Elizabeth Pack Mansfield, died last fall eleven months after receiving a diagnosis that the pain in her spine was due to metastasized kidney cancer. A few weeks before her death she wrote letters to me and each of the children, but months before that she began a second letter for our only daughter, now 10, to receive when she is older:
January 25, 2018 1:42 am-August 23, 2:02pm
Dear Miriam,
The Holy Ghost has let me know that I need to write a letter to you about being a mother. I hope to be alive while you are a mother—but especially if I am not, I need to share some truths and thoughts with you.
My own decision to become a mother went something like this– (more…)
