Today I am able to say I know exactly how you feel.
I went to my great-grandparents grave.
They are buried about 30 minutes walk away from my house and I haven't been to see them for years and years. I think I may have been a baby whe my parents took me!
We bought some flowers and headed off to find the grave. I assumed their grave was going to be like half of them, unkempt and overgrown, and the inscription barely legible, or maybe no headstone.
But we looked and looked and then they appeared.
In loving memory of
Edward Evans
died 8th January 1940 aged 46
and
Maud
died 12th December 1985 aged 92
and also of their daughter
GRACE
died in infancy
Together and resting in peace.
I burst into tears, two of the people I've been talking about for months, one who's proving very elusive and the other I feel like I've known forever. and grown up with her family, their names were in front of me. It was incredible. My mum took my son away for me to have a few 'quiet moments'.
The funniest thing though, was my 2 year old trying to put flowers on the graves next to them!