“A note to my friends. If you are reading this, it means I have passed away.” Casey McIntyre announced his death on social media with this sad message. “I’m so sorry, this sucks…” The mother of 18-month-old Grace wrote: “I loved each and every one of you with all my heart and I promise you that I knew how much I was loved. Was done” continues on Instagram. The last five months spent at home with my family and friends have been “magical.”
However, the Brooklyn cancer patient’s final letter was left incomplete due to her health: “Casey wanted to end this post with a list of things that have brought comfort and joy to her life, and that would have broken my heart. That I will never see him.” There will be a list,” says her husband, Gregory. He imagined what his late wife might have put on that list: “daughter Grace, whales, ice cream, her dear friends, the beach, her nieces and nephews, whom she loved dearly, reading ten books in a week’s vacation. , her loving parents and her sister and her wonderful extended family, swimming, a perfect roast beef sandwich and me, her sweet darling.”
The post received thousands of likes and hundreds of touching comments. Casey McIntyre worked at Razorbill, a Penguin Random House publishing company that publishes books for children and young adults. Her husband Gregory wrote, “She took great joy in publishing books for a new generation of readers and saw herself in every child spread out on a sofa, rug or bunk bed, engrossed in the latest book obsession.”
