The American actress Suzanne Somers, known for her unforgettable portrayal of Chrissy Snow in the comedy series Apartment for Three, died last Sunday at the age of 76 due to breast cancer that she had suffered for more than two decades.
The actress died at home, with her husband, just one day after celebrating her birthday, as reported by her representative. An anniversary that her husband wanted to celebrate in advance, knowing how close the end of his wife was. For this reason, he wrote her a romantic letter that she gave him on Saturday, just one day before her death, as a farewell.
Alan Hamel gave his wife a handwritten letter, wrapped in a bouquet of peonies, with which he managed to surprise her. The letter, in capital letters, said:
According to his publicist, R. Couri Hay, Hamel gave the letter to his wife, who read it and subsequently went to bed, where he died in his sleep.
“Love, I use it every day. Sometimes several times a day. I use it at the end of emails to my dear family. I even use it in emails to close friends. I use it when I leave the house,” began the note, shared by People magazine. “There is love, therefore I love you and I love you!! Therein lies some of the different ways we use love. Sometimes I feel compelled to use love, responding to someone who signed “I love you” on their email, when I feel uncomfortable using “love,” but I use it anyway.”
“I also use love to describe a great meal. I use it to express how I feel about a Netflix show. I often use love to refer to my home, to my cat Gloria, to the things Gloria makes, to the taste of a melon that I grew in my garden,” he writes, ensuring that “my daily life encompasses things and people that I love and things and people that I am indifferent to. I could go on ad infinitum,” says Hamel.
Of course, nothing is comparable to the love he feels for his wife. “What kind of love do I feel for my wife Suzanne?” he asks, “Can I find it in any of the above? A definite no!!!! There is no version of the word that applies to Suzanne and I even use the word applicable deliberately.”
“The closest version in words doesn’t even come close. It’s not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. Unconditional love doesn’t do it. I’ll take a bullet because it’s no good. I cry when I think about my feelings for you. Feelings… That It is getting closer, but not completely,” Hamel reflects.
The actress’s husband reflects on their life together, more than half a century. “55 years together, 46 married and not even an hour apart for 42 of those years. Even that’s not enough,” he added. “Even going to bed at 6 o’clock and holding hands while we sleep doesn’t help. “Looking at your beautiful face while you sleep is no use.”
“There are no words, no action,” he laments, “even the green-shaded academics at Oxford University Press have gone 150 years and still haven’t managed to find that word. So I’ll call it We, a unique, magical, indescribably We marvelous”.
The actress and Hamel married in 1977. She also had a son in that marriage, Bruce (57), the result of her marriage to Bruce Somers, whom she divorced in 1968. Hamel, for her part, also had two children from a previous relationship, Leslie and Stephen, whom the actress welcomed as her own children.
The entire family of the protagonist of Step by Step mourns the death of the actress. They will gather on Monday to celebrate her life and finalize the details of her cremation, which will take place this week. The date of her funeral will be announced soon, but everything seems to indicate that it will be held in November.
