DR. BARBARA MANDELKORN COLEMAN
I am reading these emails on the plane going back out to AZ to tend to my ailing stepmother again... and I am trying to believe that Nancy is gone. I love reading what her old friends are writing, because I didn't know Nancy till much later, when she worked in the psych dept with me at Charles River Hospital in Wellesley; but she talked a lot about Breadloaf, and her friends there and how much they meant to her. Lots of great stories of course, always.
And I'll never forget the one time I met her mother, she came up with Nancy to visit, and Nancy had told her I had never had a shoo-fly pie -- well, she brought one she had made, all the way (at that point) from Chattanooga! It was delicious. And they were amazing together.
Nancy was one of a kind, and I am so glad our life paths crossed, and so sorry for the amount of suffering she had to go through. She is at peace, and never could anyone feel more loved and supported than she was as things got worse; she was blessed to have you, and you were blessed as well. It is a privilege to even be on the fringes, as I am, and share that kind of love and generosity.
Barbara
Dr. Barbara Mandelkorn Coleman
Clinical Psychologist
