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ReST IN PeACE JilL CraNe DAY II

    Above - both sides of a valentine mom made me  in 1993 or 1994 Pages from one of the magazines mom and I used to make for ourselves in like the early nineties.   The hand is mine and the pretty stargirl hippie drawing is hers:

ReST in PeaCE my MothEr JilL CraNe

Well, it's going to be my mother Jill's birthday this Sunday, September 18th.  She died May 2, 2016.  I'm going to post things that remind me of her this weekend.  this (above) is one of our favorite scenes in the 1991 film Dogfight .  The first time we saw it was shortly after River Phoenix died.  We turned to each other simultaneously when this part came on and started crying because it was so sad that River was dead. This was another movie we loved, Housekeeping (1987):   My mom and I loved Guns N' Roses.  We had the video for Patience (above) on VHS and both loved the scene (at 5:19 - 5:21) where he's watching TV in his hotel room and looks disenchanted and handsome.  We rewound the tape just to see that part once or twice and even had it on "pause" at that scene before, and took a picture of the TV screen.     us in front of her apartment, garage sale, 1997  one of her many (possibly over a thousand ...