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'What brand of love do I feel?' Suzanne Somers' husband Alan Hamel's final love letter to her
Alan Hamel gave Suzanne Somers a heartwarming love letter a day before she died
Just a day before the Three's Company actress Suzanne Somers died, her husband Alan Hamel, 87, gave her a handwritten love letter as an early birthday present. Somers died at the age of 76 on Sunday, October 15, one day ahead of her 77th birthday. She battled with breast cancer for over 23 years. According to Somers' publicist, R. Couri Hay, after reading his letter, she went to bed and later died peacefully in her sleep.
Somers and Hamel got married in 1977. She has a son, Bruce, 57, from her previous marriage to Bruce Somers and was also a stepmom to Hamel's children, Stephen and Leslie. Hamel's love letter to the love of his life was written in capital letters and was wrapped in pink peonies. As per People, the note read -
“Love I use it every day, sometimes several times a day. I use it at the end of emails to my loving family. I even use it in emails to close friends. I use it when I’m leaving the house.” “There’s love, then love you and I love you!! Therein lies some of the different ways we use love. Sometimes I feel obliged to use love, responding to someone who signed love in their email, when I’m 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 show on Netflix. I often use love referring to my home, my cat Gloria, to things Gloria does, to the taste of a cantaloupe I grew in my garden. I love the taste of a freshly harvested organic royal jumbo medjool date. I love biting a fig off the tree. I love watching two giant blackbirds who live nearby swooping by my window in a power dive. My daily life encompasses things and people I love and things and people I am indifferent to.”
“I could go on ad infinitum, but you get it. What brand of love do I feel for my my wife Suzanne? Can I find it in any of the above? A resounding no!!!! There is no version of the word that is applicable to Suzanne and I even use the word applicable advisedly.”
“The closest version in words isn’t even close. It’s not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. Unconditional love does not do it. I’ll take a bullet for you doesn’t do it. I weep when I think about my feelings for you. Feelings… That’s getting close, but not all the way.”
“55 years together, 46 married and not even one hour apart for 42 of those years. Even that doesn’t do it. Even going to bed at 6 o’clock and holding hands while we sleep doesn’t do it. Staring at your beautiful face while you sleep doesn’t do it.”
“I’m back to feelings. There are no words. There are no actions. No promises. No declarations. Even the green shaded scholars of the Oxford University Press have spent 150 years and still have failed to come up with that one word. So I will call it, ‘Us,’ uniquely, magically, indescribably wonderful ‘Us.'”
