Jo Ann Brechtel

And one of the things Warren would say is,

You're not at fault if you don't do something right the first time or the second time.

But don't give up because if you don't try, that is the worst thing that can happen in your life.

Know that you never tried to strive for something that you thought maybe was possible.

Keep striving.

Keep telling yourself you'll get through this.

And he told me,

It's in this book.

He would call me after his surgery.

I was concerned because he's in California.

I'm in Texas.

So I couldn't do much except verbal and just show him how much I love over phone and text.

But he would tell me, Mom, don't worry.

He said, Mom, Grandma taught me a long time ago to say the rosary.

and to ask the Blessed Mother to help me get through this.

And he would say that he asked them to pray for the doctors, even, that were treating him.

And he said, Mom, I'm going to be all right.

So I have to remember that.

Wherever he is, he's all right.

And I must say, going through the memories and the words that I read, because all of these are his quotes or his words,