The Leard's of Kingsboro, Prince Edward Island

Memories
Jennifer Marie MacDonald
December 6, 1977 - January 30, 2000
Jennifer was born at Sydney, N.S. She was a Student, a Waitress and aspired to be a Journalist. She was a wonderful sister and best friend to her brother, a sister to her two sisters and sister-in-law, daughter to her father and an aunt to a niece, who was named for her as well as two additional nephews and two nieces. She died at Pasadena, California. Her cremains were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Venice Beach.
Bird On The Wire
Leonard Cohen
Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons
for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
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From Jennifer's last letter to her father - September 10, 1999.

her last photo - July 14, 1999 at Newport Beach, California
top photo taken at Boston, Massachusetts - June 1996