Photos for you.

Hi Steve,

I am still having a very difficult time right now, because of Melva's death.  I've got such a huge headache from all the crying I've done these past couple of days...including today....I need to go lay down awhile.

I know there are thousands of people having a much worse time of it right now due to the hurricane and the earthquake, and every other devastating thing that's been going on around me these past couple of months, but I'm just not very good at dealing with a loved one's death.  I don't know anybody who IS, mind you, but this hurts me so deeply, I just feel like shutting down.

I wanted to lay in bed all day and just cry it all out....but I forced myself to go out and send a sympathy card to her family...I just wish someone would have TOLD ME she had died before now, ya know?  I would have been on the next plane to attend her funeral.  I feel so hurt by that, you just don't know....it feels like I never got to say goodbye, and that breaks my heart....I mean, they were like a second family to me, not just Melva....Having Kevin tell me, six weeks AFTER her death, really cuts me to the bone and I feel so broken inside.  I don't even know where she is buried.  I feel so lost inside right now.

So I hope you'll understand that I'm not really up to writing much today.  But I wanted to send you these photos before I forgot....

This is a photo taken after the interview that I mentioned to you, that I did with them years ago....Josh Ramos, Gregg Rollie & Kevin Chalfant.  I also have an autographed black and white photo of the entire band of The Storm, and the cassette tape that still has the interview recorded on it too.

Now, Stephen, will you please take a close look and tell me, IS THIS NEAL SCHON??? If so, he was playing the keyboards with Night Ranger at the concert on Saturday.  I swear it's him...

And IS THIS NEAL SCHON playing a SAXOPHONE?!  I am 99% positive it's him, BUT, you would know much more about him than I do...I had no idea he played anything other than a guitar....

Well, I have to go lay down, I really am not feeling very well today. As you might imagine, I'm feeling very sad and depressed. It will take a long time for me to get through this grief for my "pseudo-Mom," Melva.  I loved her so much.  She was always there for me, no matter what I did, no matter what I said, she was just always there, telling me she loved me.  I really wish I could have said goodbye to her.

God I will miss her so much.

Bye for now.

Love, Rebecca