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Mom passed away 13
My sister and aunt, so far throughout the process of going through all of mom’s stuff and deciding what to keep and so forth, have adopted the practice of talking to mom. If they can’t find something of mom’s that they know is around somewhere, they will ask her out loud where it is. They [...]
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Mom passed away 12
True to his word, dad woke me up at 6:30 on the dot. He’s that kind of dad. I lay on the fold out bed listening to him and his partner Steve readying some breakfast for us. I got up and pulled on a pair of pants. It’s no use bucking for more sleep, I’m [...]
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Mom passed away 11
Once I was in the car with mom in Atlanta. She was driving me to Target to buy me a rice cooker for my birthday present a few years ago. She pulled her big Ford Explorer into the parking deck, and swooped into the handicap lot near the door. She misjudged the distance, and bonked [...]
Mom passed away 10
I got through the viewing. I had to make two more trips out to the car for shots of whiskey, but I made it through. I thanked everyone who spoke to me for coming. Some of my oldest friends came out to see me, even though we haven’t been in good touch over the years [...]
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Mom passed away 8
After I finished helping my sister put the photos out around the room, I sat on the couch and looked at mom. She looked like she was taking a nap. She really looked great. In the ceiling of the room there were three colored lights positioned to shine on her, in a triangle with the [...]
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Mom passed away 7
We went to the nearest department store, my sister and I, to get her something suitable to wear for the viewing and the funeral. I also needed a nicer white shirt than the one I had with me. My sister tried a few things on. She wanted something in brown with a pink top. I [...]
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Donations for Mom
Just a note for anyone who may be reading, in lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to the Revlon Run Walk for Women, an organization with which mom was closely affiliated. Her mother and my grandmother, Evie Bryant, died of ovarian cancer which was the same type that eventually claimed mom’s life. They [...]
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Mom passed away 5
This morning I ate a biscuit that was in the freezer. It was an orphan of a cellophaned pack of two. Presumably my mom ate the other one. It occurs to me that the ripples and impressions that Mom has made in life will disappear in order from the largest to the smallest, and this [...]
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Mom passed away 4
We stopped off at the bottle shop to pick me up some whiskey. The open sign was not on, but the guy was in there reading the paper. It was raining pretty heavily. I went inside, told him that his sign wasn’t on, and started looking around the shelves. He said the power had gone [...]
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