What’s in a name? “My husband” has a meaning; a connotation as well. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Jerry Gass was my husband. The best husband. He loved me so much there are hardly words to describe it. He treated me like a princess. He...
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What does the perfect man look like? It is not about his eyes, though they are dreamy. It is not about his height, though I love the way when I stand against him he feels like a wall as I look up at him, stable and strong. It is not his hair, though my...
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One year ago, I quietly received a Facebook message from The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. The foundation said they wanted to build my kids and I a mortgage-free home in honor of my late husband Jerry Gass Jr., a Green Beret who died during a...
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“If you remember anything of me after I leave this world remember that I loved even when it was foolish. That I cared even when it was unwanted. When my body is gone, remember my heart.” -Abhishek Kumar “The destiny that matters the most in life is the one...
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“Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs…” The song by Five Man Electrical Band and covered by Tesla keeps running through my head. IT IS A SIGN! Ha! The song is not about this, but I can hardly ignore the connections between these band names and my namesake....
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.