For Jerry – The Man Who Loved my Mom. In life and after death, Jerry changed my life. I wrote quite a bit after Jerry died, coping with the loss and everything I went through afterwards, the hardest year of my life. Eventually I’ll go back and make sense of it and add to this page.  For now I can say that Jerry was an amazing man who loved my Mom more than anything. When I would visit them I’d hear their laughter well into the night. I’d never heard my Mom laugh so freely, and see her feeling so special. Jerry gave my mom what she’d deserved her whole life, and then he was gone.