Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - A Yearlong Friendship And A Hard Goodbye

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

Fan MailYour heart can feel the loss before your phone ever rings. I’m sharing a short, heavy bonus episode about death, grief, and the day I learned my friend and coworker Adeline Chapman had passed away. We met on the job and became fast friends in a way that surprised me, because I’m not the type to run with a crowd. But with her, the bond was real, simple, and steady.I talk about the little things that became big things: rides home after second shift so she wouldn’t have to catch the bus, dinners together, and the way we kept showing up for each other even after she got sick and couldn’t work anymore. When cancer entered the picture, I didn’t even know at first and that truth hit hard. It also opened up a deeper conversation about how people sometimes hide painful news from the ones they love most, and what it means to stay close when life gets scary.From there, I get honest about family hurt and the pattern I can’t stand: families who only come together when someone is dying or already gone. None of us knows when life will change, so I’m asking the question out loud: why not love now, support now, fix what can be fixed now? If you’ve been dealing with loss, friendship after illness, family division, or searching for spiritual comfort, this one is for you. Listen, share it with someone who needs a nudge to reach out, and please subscribe and leave a review if this message lands with you.Music Show endSupport the showContact My official website https://www.reginaswarn.comEmail address [e-mail] Podcast  theme  composed by Chris Murphy Elliott  

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Welcome back to another bonus episode of Regina Sworn Audio Series presents. I'm not going to hose you very long. I just want to talk briefly about death, which is not a good topic to talk about, but sometimes it's something that we all need to talk about. I want to speak about a friend that, a colleague of mine, that passed away on the 19th. Her name was Adeline Chapman. and we met on the job

we met and we became fast friends and I don't normally do that with anyone I don't anybody that knows me know that I just I say to myself I'm the kind of person that don't like to be in the crowd I'm a two-yourself kind of a person I really am

but with Adeline and she was the same way that's the weird part people thought she was mean but I didn't think she was mean I just thought she was a person that was straight to the point but we became fast friends I would go

what most people would say out of my way to take her home at night when I got off from work when I worked the second shift I would definitely go out of my way because I just had to hit the interstate and be home but I would go out of my way and take her home the keeper from having to catch the bus, you know, and we'd chat and talk and, you know, things

like that. But roughly around, oh, my God, I think it was the end of last summer. She kept getting sick. Her stomach was hurting very badly. And, long story short, You know, she finally got tested and they said that it was cancer. Now, of course, she didn't tell me. She told everybody but me.

I didn't even know it. Even when we would talk a lot of times, I still didn't know that she had cancer. And that's how it is sometimes a friend or a family member who's very close to you. Don't want you to know things because you're very close to you. And my sister Laura was very much like that. As a matter of fact, I had adopted Adeline as my sister Laura type. I was so glad to have another sisterly figure in my life. But we became fast friends and just hit it off very well.

You know, anything that I could do for her, I did it. And vice versa, you know. we sit and have dinner together and like I said I don't do that with people especially people on the job I don't do it it's not like I'm better than anybody but I just don't do that but with her I did that when she got cancer and could not come work anymore and couldn't work anymore I would still go by her house to see her

before I go to work or go by to see her the next morning when I got off from work. So we stayed friends. I mean, we didn't stop. It just got stronger. And, oh, my God, it's so hard. It's breaking my heart right now. But, you know, the weird thing about death is, for me anyway, I, uh, sometimes I know things is wrong.

Last week I was crying, crying, crying, crying. And I'm like, God, come on now, what's going on? Because any time the Lord had me crying like that, something is definitely wrong. And so, I mean, literally crying my eyes out and I say, God, come on, what is that? And, no, I know why, you know. I know why now. And I've been trying to call her, caller, caller for the last week. Because like I said, we stay in touch with each other almost every day.

I talk sometimes two or three times a day. And I don't do that with people, just writing with people. So you know we had to have hit it off with each other. but I'm here to say God put that lady in my life for that short time for a year time, a year's time, so I can

tell her about the Lord and bring some happiness to her life and bring happiness to my own life because I lost my sister Laura. So I'm just here to say that when I got the news this morning that she had passed away because I've been trying to call her like crazy.

Like, I haven't talked to my friend. What is up? I haven't talked to her. I need to talk to her. And surely enough, you know, she passed away. You know what I wish with my family, my own family? I wish that they didn't wait to someone get sick

or about to die or die to come together. I have that kind of family that they don't come together. They don't get together until someone is dead or about to die or is sick. They don't get together. And I wish that they would stop that. I wish with all of my heart that they would stop that. I have a sister who hurt me so bad back in February. She hurt my feelings.

She wounded me. And she knew it. but we never got it right because I was so hurt by the things that she said to me I was hurt by the things she said hurtful things that I was trying to do something good for her

and I did something good for her and it seemed like she just didn't appreciate it and that hurt me because I do put myself sometimes to do things for people. I'd do a little bit more than I probably should. But if the Lord tell me to do something, I have to do it if the Lord tells me. And we finally didn't make up last week, but it was because of my brother.

She had told my brother, while Gina is mad with me. I don't know what's going on. I just wish, these are my older sisters. I wish that they would try to come together, because we, We all, we don't know where that is. None of us. You can go to the doctor and your doctor can say, no, you got cancer. You can be driving home from work and being an accident. Anything can happen.

Anything. And I'm not trying to put bad vibes out on anyone, but I'm just saying, why can't we love roses now, love now, instead of waiting to someone pass away or die. Why? That's why you see me supporting. I support my nieces and nephews and friends. I support people.

I support them. People cannot say one thing they can see about me is that I don't support you. I support my family as well. In one way are the other. And so I just wish My greatest wish is that my own personal family would come together. It's all these little groups, this group here, that group there, a section here, a section there.

Everybody got their own groups, their own little areas, their own little, you know, little teams, I should call it. and when so went died did everybody cuddled together the phone ringing off the phone is ringing off the hook such and such died this one died oh just a die oh I'm supposed to say oh

and that bun just is there but for a very short time I wish my family could come together I mean the whole family I know the whole tree family can't come together, you know, like my great-great-grandmother or my uncle from my father's side and all that.

I know that can't happen. But the immediate family, why do we have to wait to someone die? Why? I thank God for putting Adeline in my life. for roughly a year or a little bit better, I thank God for putting heart in my life. We were a blessing to one another, you know. There were times I was extremely tired

after having worked. It was so tired. Working overnight at the hospital. I was so tired. But she had called me and she said, you know, she just as if she was, you know, couldn't work anymore. She said, what are you doing? She said, what are you doing? Here it is, like when nine is a lot, and haven't even wanted to bed yet, you need to go to bed. And she said,

what are you doing? I said, well, I just got home and I said, well, what's up? You know, with God like that, what's up? She said, I don't know. I just want to know if you want to get together later and we just sit out, top, you know, shoot debris or whatever. I said, oh, sure, yeah. She said, I would just get a couple hours of sleep, and if you feel like it. And sure enough, a lot of times I would, believe it or not, I would go right then. I should have been sleeping, but I would go then. I would just sit and talk.

She just a lot of times just wanted someone to talk to. Because a lot of times when people no longer work at a job, this shows you a true friend. Well, someone don't work at a job anymore. A lot of times people forget you. They do. They forget you. You know, and a lot of times people would tell me on many jobs this happened before when I was at another place. People would tell me they say, you know what, you are the only one.

All those people that say that they're my friend, they're my this, they're my dad. You are the absolute only one. Regina, who remembers me, who continued to stay in contact with me. And that is so important to do. You know, when people are, we don't know what people are going through, number one. We don't know. So I'm sure glad that God put Adeline in my life. It was for a short time.

It was for a year. But we made a bind that I'll have to say goes beyond the grave. That bind goes beyond the grave. And I'm just thankful to God. I'm sorry, you guys, the cat is on my bed, just acting crazy. But I'm glad God put her in my life and put us in one another's life. I had a chance to tell her about the Lord. and, you know, we had a chance to talk about the Lord.

We did. We didn't just talk about the good times and have a good time. We talked about the Lord, too. I'm definitely going to miss her. I'm going to miss her. You know how strange it is. My sister Laura's memorial is coming up in August. Well, no, in July, sorry.

Her memorial is coming up. My God, I'm just. This is really taking me, guys, I'm sorry. I'm just praying for her family, her kids, her girls, her sons, her sisters. I'm praying for a family. I hope and pray that. God gives them strength. God strengthens them.

That's my prayer for her family, for her girls, and for her family, you know, our grandkids. And I just want to say, I just want to say, you know, just, just love. Love. It's not all about you all the time. It's not all about me all the time. Love. I'm going to call her girls try to do something, you know.

My heart is broken by this. This is broke. My heart is broke, but... I know that God. God knows all the things. God knows all things. I'm going to definitely miss her. You know, I...

I'm not close to a lot of people. I'm really not. I'm not close to my sisters. I'm not. I'm just going to be honest with you. I'm closer to my brothers. And I was pretty close to Adeline. I was pretty close to her.

Anybody on the job to tell you that? A lot of times when I come into work, people say, how is Adeline, you know? Oh, God. We don't know where death is. We don't know when that last moment of life, when the breath, the last breath of our body is gone. When we breathe that last breath,

we don't know. We don't know. I don't know. I just want to say that. I just, my heart felt super. heavy. Now I know why. No, I didn't know, but now I know. So now I'm just going to be praying for her daughters and for her family and her sons and it God gives them strength. I'm sorry, I wasn't intending to bring you this type of a podcast, but because my heart

was a bit heavy, I had to express myself somehow, you know. So thank you for listening. If you got someone out there, I love one, family member, a friend, love them. Love them. Love them.

So let's say. I ended there. Again, contact me at Svorn, Regina at chumel.com. And you can visit my official website, Regina Sourin. Thanks for listening. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast.

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