Last Email

Miss you all.  Wish I was with you. Dad.
Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Funny thing about email, you can look back at it. It doesn't go away. I introduced my dad the the internet right at the start. Even then he thought it was too much for him, but he was a user for fifteen years. After I put him on the internet I wrote a column for .net magazine titled 'Don't put your father on the net, Mrs Worthington'. As he got older his communications became more intermittent, but he kept on emailing friends and family till the end.
In an idle moment I looked back to see what was the last email he sent me. A strange experience, because I could so easily imagine that he was about to send me another one (and also because my brother had used his account a bit to email me, and I had to discount those).
So this was his last email, sent four months before he died, in response to an email from me on holiday. Sweet and to the point.