We only wrote four letters to George and Helen in 1979, and one of those is one that I already posted: the one that I had labeled as late 1978 turns out to have really been late 1979.<\/p>\r\n
This project has continued to be stressful for me. One of the early-1979 letters includes the first time that Marcy used the word leukemia<\/i> in these letters.<\/p>\r\n
And next week will pick up with early 1980, and the week after that will be mid-1980, and the week after that will be late 1980, including a brief letter that Marcy wrote the day before she died.<\/p>\r\n
I think\/hope that the project will be easier on me after that. The anticipation has been a lot of what\u2019s been hard about this project for me lately\u2014knowing (as I read and digitize these letters) exactly how much longer she had left to live, and knowing that she and we didn\u2019t know that at the time.<\/p>\r\n
Still, I guess it\u2019s good to see that there was more going on for her in that period than just dealing with the illness.<\/p>\r\n