It’s been nearly five months since my mother passed at 88, just two months shy of her 89th birthday. I’ve written about grieving for my mother extensively in this section of AfterTalk, and you are welcome to read my earlier posts written shortly after her death. You don’t have to; here’s the ‘previously…”: it was not […]
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NOTE: This is the second of two posts by Caitlin about Father’s Day Dear Dad, As more distance comes between the present and the time of your death, I get worried. For me, time will always bend so that you were here just yesterday. However, as I get older, I surround myself with more and
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My younger sister Jolie and I are five years apart. We were playmates from the beginning, and it seems that her maturity accelerated to keep up with mine. I got a cellphone after years of waiting, and the next week she got a cellphone. When it comes to a Verizon Wireless family package, five years
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Denial makes things a blur. I know that I plunged myself to those depths of unfeeling because I wanted to survive, and on good days, I can forgive myself for it. I must have been there for over a year, when I could smell a musty, old dream of college – long forgotten in the
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Dad, The summer after you died, I went through the attic. I was not looking for your things. Honestly, I was looking for vintage clothes from Mom’s old wardrobe. I’m not ashamed of that, because the skeletal mounds of your things around the house were suffocating. Shirts and pants and underwear, and Mom couldn’t get rid of them,
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