My Thoughts on Hope Families are so precious and sometimes in our busy lives we forget Just how much they mean to us. It is often only when we lose someone Dear to us that we remember this. I am now at that time of life when I find Myself on my own having already lost my Mother & Father and yes my own Dear wife. I am blessed with having a Son and a daughter-In-Law but no grand children, so that leaves me with a number of dear cousins who are now spread wide and far. When I lost my own wife I reminisced looking at photos of her together with our Bridesmaids, the youngest being my dear Cousin Hope Nelson (Nee Riley), whom I now count amongst some of my most cherished memories, as she to has now passed away. Too young by far and suffered the same incurable cause of her death as did my own wife. Maybe one day mankind will find a cure or prevention for this cruel disease which has taken so many of our loved ones far to early from us. Hope will be missed but will always be close to my heart and one day I believe we shall all be together throughout eternity and a Family forever! John Robles