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April 13, 2007
She's Passed
She died at around two this morning. This is the last picture I took of her, I don't know how long ago. The fact that my grandfather's standing next to her means it was probably fifteen years ago.
Strange fact: The two of them never smiled at the same time in the same photo.
Mom and Roger and I went to the hospital to clean up her room this morning. Most of her belongings we're donating, which I feel good about. I think the service is going to be on Monday.
I'm not going to give some bullshit speech about loving the people you have while they're still around, because you're going to do that anyway, and no one stops loving people after they die, either. I think my only real revelation from all of this is to live your life being true to yourself and to who you really are. Too many people, like my grandmother, live their lives unhappily. I find that to be one of the most horrible things that I can imagine, spending the majority of a ninety plus year life being unhappy.
Don't let that happen to yourself.
Oh, and love the people you have, whether they're still with you or not.
Posted by Schamberger at April 13, 2007 02:35 PM