Lynne, I didn't get to know you (even virtually, as I'd just de-lurked around then) well enough to feel I could comment on that thread, even though it brought tears to my eyes and still does to see it again. I can't imagine the depths to which you yourself must feel Damien's loss, and wish you didn't have to, and not your children either.
But wanted you to know you are missed, and thought of...even by a virtual stranger. Bonds form in the strangest, most unexpected ways, I guess, in a changing world. Hope you and your children have formed new bonds in real life too in this short time. Did you get the puppy you wanted, I wonder? Hope you're doing well, and hope we'll see you back here sometime. If we don't, wishing you every blessing life can pony up in recompense.
(Isabel, so sweet of you to start this thread. Hugs to you too! This is one of the things I love best about YLF --- it's a real community, not just a 'club' of fashionable women.)