Dear Brother Boye,<\/p>\n
I wanted to write to you and thank you for your music video Smiles for Life<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0My mother<\/a> was recently diagnosed with a rapidly degenerative and terminal neurological disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.\u00a0She began by having balance problems followed by losing her short-term memory. Smiles for Life<\/em> was posted just before she lost the ability to remember new things. She has a special fondness for it because her oldest daughter and son-in-law are featured for just a moment in the video.\u00a0They\u2019re the couple that does a spin and dip during one of the dance montages.\u00a0She was so proud of her children and loved the music and the message it conveyed.\u00a0Multiple times a day she asked us if we\u2019d seen it and wanted to show it to us, having forgotten that we\u2019d seen it already.\u00a0She liked it so much that we always just watched it again with her.<\/p>\n That was about 2 months ago; in the last couple weeks she has deteriorated to the point that she barely speaks and needs help with everything she does. Every day she gets a little worse.\u00a0Her time with is us is very short; she will probably not live to see her 62nd birthday at the end of this month.\u00a0We watch your video each morning because it always brings a smile to her face. It has brought happiness to our mother at a difficult time for our family.\u00a0We do our best to fill her days with joyful memories and happy moments.\u00a0It is a very precious gift to us to see her smiles and her laughs.\u00a0Thank you for contributing to the happiness of our mother.\u00a0I wanted you to know how much it means to us and how grateful we are.<\/p>\n Sincerely, Dear Brother Boye, I wanted to write to you and thank you for your music video Smiles for Life.\u00a0My mother was recently diagnosed with a rapidly degenerative and terminal neurological disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.\u00a0She began by having balance problems followed by losing her short-term memory. Smiles for Life was posted just before she lost the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[274],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-m0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe Hoffman Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"