Suzanne Somers‘ husband, Alan Hamel, gave the “Three’s Company” actress a handwritten letter one day before her death at age 76 on Sunday.
Hamel, 87, gifted the poem to Somers as a part of an early birthday present. The late star passed away ahead of her 77th birthday on Monday.
Based on her publicist R. Couri Hay, Hamel “gave it to her a day early and she or he read the poem and went to bed and later died peacefully in her sleep.”
The note was written in all caps and was wrapped in pink peonies.
“Love I exploit it every day, sometimes several times a day. I exploit it at the tip of emails to my loving family. I even use it in emails to shut friends. I exploit it once I’m leaving the home,” the note began, via (*1*)People. “There’s love, then love you and I like you!! Therein lies a number of the other ways we use love. Sometimes I feel obliged to make use of love, responding to someone who signed love of their email, once I’m uncomfortable using love but I exploit it anyway.”
“I also use love to explain an incredible meal. I exploit it to specific how I feel a couple of 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 like the taste of a freshly harvested organic royal jumbo medjool date. I like biting a fig off the tree. I like watching two giant blackbirds who live nearby swooping by my window in an influence dive. My each day life encompasses things and other people I like and things and other people I’m indifferent to,” he continued. “I could go on ad infinitum, but you get it. What brand of affection do I feel for my my wife Suzanne? Can I find it in any of the above? A convincing no!!!! There isn’t a version of the word that’s 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 doesn’t do it. I’ll take a bullet for you doesn’t do it. I weep once I take into consideration my feelings for you. Feelings… That’s getting close, but not all the best way.”
“55 years together, 46 married and never even one hour apart for 42 of those years. Even that doesn’t do it,” he added. “Even going to bed at 6 o’clock and holding hands while we sleep doesn’t do it. Gazing your beautiful face when you sleep doesn’t do it.”
“I’m back to feelings. There aren’t any words,” he concluded. “There aren’t any actions. No guarantees. No declarations. Even the green shaded scholars of the Oxford University Press have spent 150 years and still have did not provide you with that one word. So I’ll call it, ‘Us,’ uniquely, magically, indescribably wonderful ‘Us.’”
Somers and Hamel tied the knot in 1977. She has a son, Bruce, 57, from her marriage to Bruce Somers, which resulted in 1968. She was also a stepmom to Hamel’s children, Stephen and Leslie Hamel.
Somers died on Sunday morning after “an aggressive type of breast cancer for over 23 years,” her publicist said in an announcement.
Somers’ family will gather Monday to “rejoice her extraordinary life.” A personal family burial will even happen this week, with a memorial to follow next month.
Somers was best known for taking part in Chrissy Snow on the Seventies sitcom “Three’s Company” and Carol Foster Lambert on the ’90s family comedy “Step by Step.”
The writer is survived by Alan, her three children and 6 grandchildren.