{"id":5285,"date":"2023-10-23T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:50:08","slug":"suzanne-somers-husband-gave-her-romantic-love-poem-hours-before-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/10\/suzanne-somers-husband-gave-her-romantic-love-poem-hours-before-her-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Somers’ Husband Gave Her Romantic Love Poem Hours Before Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fitness icon and actress Suzanne Somers recently died after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 76 and died one day before her 77th birthday. Her husband of 46 years, Alan Hamel, was by her side and gave her a love poem he\u2019d written in honor of her birthday shortly before she died.<\/p>\n

He gave it to her a day early, and the poem has since been made public. Shared with People Magazine <\/em>in its entirety, Hamel started the poem, \u201cLove: I use it every day, sometimes several times a day. I use it at the end of emails to my loving family. I even use it in emails to close friends. I use it when I\u2019m leaving the house. There\u2019s love, then love you, and I love you!! Therein lies some of the different ways we use love. Sometimes, I feel obliged to use love, responding to someone who signed love in their email, when I\u2019m uncomfortable using love, but I use it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamel continued, \u201cI also use love to describe a great meal. I use it to express how I feel about a show on Netflix. I often use love to refer to my home, my cat Gloria, the things Gloria does, to the taste of a cantaloupe I grew in my garden. I love the taste of a freshly harvested organic royal jumbo Medjool date. I love biting a fig off the tree. I love watching two giant blackbirds who live nearby swooping by my window in a power drive. My daily life encompasses things and people I love and things and people I am indifferent to. I could go on ad infinitum, but you get it. What brand of love do I feel for my wife, Suzanne? Can I find it in any of the above? A resounding no!!!! There is no version of the word that is applicable to Suzanne, and I even use the word applicable advisedly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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