{"id":8795,"date":"2017-12-25T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2017-12-22T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:00:15","slug":"december-2017-another-christmas-again-without-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=8795","title":{"rendered":"December 2017 &#8211; Another Christmas Again Without Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8796\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?attachment_id=8796\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?fit=3872%2C2592&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3872,2592\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D80&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1303995461&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;66&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.2&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Morgan 136 copy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?fit=584%2C391&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8796\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?resize=584%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?w=3872&amp;ssl=1 3872w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?resize=448%2C300&amp;ssl=1 448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Morgan-136-copy.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I miss our youngest daughter Morgan. \u00a0I miss her every moment of every day, but out of the whole year, December is the hardest month for me. \u00a0Morgan was found dead the morning of December 2, 2011, and from that moment on, my world was never the same. \u00a0How could it be? \u00a0It never could&#8230;a piece of my heart was forever gone.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above is a happy memory for me. \u00a0As you can see in the picture, Morgan had her own little fairy tree in her room. \u00a0She kept in it her room all year long, not just at Christmas time. \u00a0In this picture she was blowing bubbles from a bubble wand. \u00a0I am so grateful that I have so many pictures of her, because my memories, and pictures of her, are all I have left, after her life was cut short, at age 20, by an obsessed, jealous stalker.<\/p>\n<p>But today, on Christmas, I just want to focus on <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">LOVE<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; I believe love is the most important thing in the world. \u00a0Morgan taught me the meaning of unconditional love, so today I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, full of love for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss our youngest daughter Morgan. \u00a0I miss her every moment of every day, but out of the whole year, December is the hardest month for me. \u00a0Morgan was found dead the morning of December 2, 2011, and from that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=8795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,39],"tags":[1432,1414,1433,111],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgan-ingram","category-tonis-reflections","tag-christmas2017love","tag-loveneverends","tag-toniingram","tag-morganingram"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wvjS-2hR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5110,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=5110","url_meta":{"origin":8795,"position":0},"title":"A Sign From Morgan &#8211; a little Christmas miracle","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"December 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week was extremely hard for our family. \u00a0Tuesday, December 2nd was the 3rd anniversary of Morgan's passing, and we had entered another holiday season without her. \u00a0Needless to say there have been a lot of tears and gut-wrenching pain. 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