Read the Love Letter Suzanne Somers’ Husband Alan Hamel Wrote to Her the Day Before Her Death Somers’ longtime publicist R. Couri Hay tells PEOPLE that Hamel “gave it to her an afternoon early and she read the poem and went to mattress and later died peacefully in her sleep.”
Alan Hamel wrote a lovely poem to his wife of 46 years, Suzanne Somers that she examined the nighttime before she “died peacefully in her sleep” on Sunday morning.
Somers’ longtime publicist R. Couri Hay tells PEOPLE that Hamel, 87 — whom Somers was married to considering that 1977 after dating for 10 years — “gave it to her a day early and she or he study the poem and went to mattress and later died peacefully in her sleep.”
Written in all caps, the poem reads: “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.”
Continuing: “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 TO REFER 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.
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Hamel wrote: “I COULD GO ON AD INFINITUM, BUT YOU GET IT. WHAT BRAND OF LOVE DO I FEEL FOR 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 DON’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 forty-two OF THOSE YEARS,” he shared.
“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.” He concluded: “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.’”
“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 DON’T DO IT.
I WEEP WHEN I THINK ABOUT MY FEELINGS FOR YOU. FEELINGS… THAT’S GETTING CLOSE, BUT NOT ALL THE WAY.”
“fifty-five YEARS TOGETHER, forty-six MARRIED AND NOT EVEN ONE HOUR APART FOR forty-two OF THOSE YEARS,” he shared.
“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.” He concluded: “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 one hundred fifty YEARS AND STILL HAVE FAILED TO COME UP WITH THAT ONE WORD.
SO I WILL CALL IT, ‘US’, UNIQUELY, MAGICALLY, INDESCRIBABLY WONDERFUL ‘US.’”