Rosie could not cope with her mother's passing. Everyone said time would heal her pain but Rosie knew with certainty that each day without her beloved parent would be blacker and darker than the day before. She felt unwilling to keep going without her Mama even though Rosie was herself a mother to three beautiful young women and wife to a man who loved her more than anything on earth. Rosie's pain became tunnel visioned and she found each day there was only one thought in her mind...to find her mother again. "Where are you, Mama,?" Rosie would cry in her sleep. "How can I go on without you"? she asked as she stared out the front picture window. Suddenly an answer came to her, an instant solution to the grief and the huge loss that was overwhelming her. Rosie stood up and walked like one sleeping to the side door that led to the garage. She slid into the blue pontiac and pressed the garage door opener. The car purred as Rosie backed out of the driveway and a plan began to form in her mind. "I will not hurt anyone," she promised herself as she sped up the road that led to Ethe parkway. The car hugged the road as she manoeuvred each curve and still Rosie continued to press the accelerator. "Faster," she thought. There was a huge oak tree on the right side of the road. No children played in the park because school had not let out for the day yet. "I only need to turn the wheel slightly...I won't hurt anyone but myself...I will see Mama again"... The sound of the car smacking into the unmoveable oak echoed through the valley. In minutes people began to arrive at the accident scene. Someone called the ambulance from her cell phone and others peered into the upside down car to see if the woman was alive. She appeared lifeless and blood covered her forehead, knees and the front of her summer dress. Rosie was crumpled up like a rag doll, lifeless and still. Fire fighters carefully pulled her out and laid her on the stretcher while one of the medical team performed mouth to mouth recisitation. A short time later, she was pronounced dead. Rosie watched them work over her earthly body and felt absolutely nothing. Rosie knew that she could not stay here long because she was on a mission to find her mother. Rosie saw the circle of light and began to move effortlessly into the tunnel toward the sounds of singing and above the songs she could hear her mother's voice. "Rosie, my Rosie, come to Mama". Rosie saw her mother and the vision of her was awesome. She was dressed in white and her wings shimmered in the light cast by her form. Rosie hurried toward the angel but became distracted by other sounds. She heard the ambulance screaming and she heard the crowd noise as people waited and whispered. Then, Rosie heard a plaintive wail...the sound of her eldest daughter who had come along the same road only moments after the accident. Natalie was on her knees, her arms around the lifeless body that once was Rosie and she cried over and over again, "Oh, please Mama, please don't leave me! I need you so much. We all need you. Please, don't go"! The peace and serenity that Rosie had begun to feel was shattered like the broken glass of her windshield. Rosie knew that she was so connected to the spirit of her mother that she simply could not heed the call of her daughter. This was Rosie's truth at that instant. Rosie could feel her mother's arms around her, the comfort she had longed for during the past months. She heard the angel whisper and it sounded like her mother speaking quietly in her ear. "Dearest Rosie, how I love you. I have been your guardian angel since I left you. I long to be with you again but know this. Once you leave your world, you will be with me for all eternity, my dear. Listen to the voice of your daughter who needs you even more than you need me. You can become her earth angel. You must choose, my sweet child, but choose wisely". Rosie trembled as she stood halfway to heaven and she looked both ways. She could see her mother in the distant light and could be with her in a second. She could also see her eldest daughter crying out to her to stay, the young woman's face shattered. Rosie looked toward her mother once more and realized that the distance between them had grown larger and her voice was like a whisper. Rosie felt herself drawn back into the lifeless body that was once her and as she slipped inside, she felt the arms of her Natalie holding her close. Rosie moaned. Natalie shrieked to the paramedics to come quickly. Rosie opened her eyes and for one instant connected with her daughter and knew that she had made the right decision. "I'll be alright now, my dear Mama. Wait a little while longer for me! There is some living and some loving that has to be done right here before I can come home to you. The ambulance raced to Grace Hospital where intricate surgery was performed by the surgeons. Rosie's entire family gathered in the waiting room holding and loving one another. Hours later a doctor appeared and smiled at the girls and their father. "Would you like to see your mother now? She is going to be just fine."