Part I am in awe - when I recall her determination and sheer willpower that drove her to achieve great things - that made her take up nursing at a late age – working and retiring as a District Nurse in the NHS (UK National Health Service), and later serving as Director and Nurse Administrator of Care Homes of Distinction Ltd., in UK - owned and operated by my brother Manu - and pride and awe too when she was the recipient of the coveted, 'Nurse of the Year' award for 2009 from the Surrey Care Association. From a housewife, Amma became a professional, caring for the sick and the elderly, driving her own car and owning houses both in the UK and back home in Ceylon, never depending on anyone. I remember Amma's love for plants and the way she cared for them, a trait I see in myself. She learned to swim at fifty, became a vegetarian and travelled a lot to Australia, Malaysia, Canada, India, Philippines, Europe and Ceylon. I am overwhelmed when I remember how devastated Amma was when she lost her youngest and 4th son, my brother, Mayan. She was inconsolable, but she suppressed a lot of her grief - wondering inside why she still lived when he was gone; overwhelmed too, when I remember when she was stricken with cancer and had a mastectomy - all of which I strongly feel led to her getting Alzheimer’s disease in her last years. It breaks my heart that we lost another brother, Mathan, her 3rd son, only in January this year, to cancer - theirs was a bond so close, I feel Amma has joined