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We met a charming couple, Janet and Dave Brennan on the Cruice Critic website 2 days before the 2015 World Cruise. We picked them up at the Villages and took them to Ft. Lauderdale with us to meet the Amsterdam, our ship for the next 114 days. They had never been on a cruise before; Dave didn't seem to be overly excited about it but this cruise was Janet's dream.
Once we got out to sea I got a call in our cabin from Janet. Her camera was broken and that meant she couldn't take any pictures for the entire cruise. She was so disappointed and was on the verge of tears. As usual, I had packed a back-up camera for us in case we had a camera malfunction and asked Bill if he would mind if I offered it to her for the duration of the cruise. He insisted that I lend it to her and she graciously accepted. I was so glad we had packed that old camera!
She never quite understood how to take the picture off the SD card and load them on the on the computer so I met with her frequently on sea days to transfer her pictures onto her computer.
After every port Janet showed me the new earrings she bought that day. She bought at least one pair of earrings everywhere the ship docked and sometimes two or three pairs! Some pairs were a dollar or two or twenty and some were nearly a thousand dollars like the black pearl earrings she bought when we spent nearly all day together in the Blue Pearl jewelry store in Tahiti and we both got a pair! At the end of the cruise Janet told me she had nearly 100 new pairs of earrings!
We were going to drop Dave and Janet off at their home after the cruise but first we decided to take a detour through Orlando and introduce them (along with our friends John Graham and Joanne Grabynowicz) to the Boston's Fish House, our favorite local seafood restaurant. Janet was giddy with excitement from the cruise!
Last week (4 months after the cruise) I sent an email to Janet just to say hello and ask if she had worn all her new earrings yet.
I received a return email from Dave. Janet had open heart surgery on July 27th and didn't survive the procedure - she died in the operating room.
Bill and I are stunned. I'm glad Janet got to go on her dream world cruise and I'm glad I was able to share it with her. I am so pleased I got to know Janet. She came into my life for such a short time and then left way too quickly.
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