A New Jersey woman who lost her mother to cancer has written a letter to her fellow ‘motherless daughters.’
Jenna Rose Lowthert, whose mom Gina Marie died two years ago at the age 48, wrote in the letter posted to her blog that, “Mother’s Day is just another painful reminder that she is no longer physically here.”
However, Lowthert wants motherless daughters like her to know that, “as you watch friends celebrate with their moms, please remember that yours is tucked away deep down in your heart.”
Besides, she adds, “your mother would want nothing more than to see you smile.”
Lowthert tells CTV News Channel that the letter has elicited many heartwarming messages from people experiencing loss.
Lowthert says her main message to motherless daughters is to keeping “living their lives” and to “not stop anything.”
Lowthert says that, even though their time together on Earth was cut short, her mother still managed to impart important lessons, including “life is too short to sweat the small stuff” and “pick and choose (your) battles.”
One of the big lessons Lowthert has learned since her painful loss is that people can never know what “life is going to throw at (them) next.”
“She was 48 and I was 24 when she passed away,” she says. “Two years ago, I would never have expected her not to be here.”
