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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:00 AM

I found my father dead

Now that death has come, words that used to seem trite sound unexpectedly profound.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Tuesday, March 20, 2007 07:24 PM

    Grief

    Sean, I'm so sorry for your loss. I was in your shoes 2 years ago with my mom, and I'm now having to watch my beloved stepdad face cancer after he took care of mom with hers. As Cary and Virgo said, things do get better with time. The heaviness, the emptiness...it will recede with time, even though right now it doesn't feel that way. Be kind to yourself, and with your family, and take things one at a time, and it will get better. Or as my biodad says, you learn to live with the loss, adjusting to the weight of it (as it were).

    Virgo, I'm also sorry for you and your family. I can't imagine what you've all gone through with your mom...you have all my good wishes. I hope her passing was a good one, to make up for the dementia.

    You are both in my good thoughts...may the passage of time be kind to you and yours.

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