Westbury Gardens hold some special memories for me and my family. A very close friend of my family, recently passed away from cancer.Her name was Esther. She was a constant visitor to the Gardens during her treatment period, as the Gardens provided an oasis of peace and tranquility for her. Esther would sit quietly on a bench in a certain area in the Garden and reflect and meditate. Sadly she soon became too weak to venture out and she ended her days in hospice, with only memories of happy days spent in the Gardens. Recently her sister called my family and told us an amazing story. Westbury Gardens was promoting a contest in which you had to write something about the Gardens. She wrote about her sister and what the Gardens meant to her. The story touched the Westbury Garden people so much that they had a meeting and decided to name the very bench that her sister would sit on day after day; "Esther's bench".
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