Tag: death
member name: Aileen F.
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July 17, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
In my mind, he was graduating high school on a football scholarship and enjoyed racing midget cars.
On my calendar, he was 13 weeks gestation.
In my womb, he'd stopped growing at 9 weeks and had . . . more
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April 16, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
My girls were young, preschool age, and we had experienced a lot of loss by that time. It was the transient kind of loss, divorce, living with their grandmother, then moving out on our own.
We were brave . . . more
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October 28, 2006 01:10 AM EDT --
A silent ripple passed through the ether of our existence this week. It should have at least been a drum roll. Or a cherry bomb.
Sandy West, drummer for the Runaways, died this week at age 47 . . . more
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July 08, 2006 03:09 AM EDT --
"Do you remember it, dear?" She leaned forward and brushed aside the grass cuttings that had gathered on the stone. "I was there this morning, looking for you, but of course, you didn't . . . more
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February 24, 2006 08:24 AM EST --
On Sunday we will say our good-byes to a very sweet woman who recently made the life-end journey to be with her husband. It's not my place to go into the family dynamics that shocked so many of us . . . more
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March 26, 2006 07:04 PM EST --
"It's okay, it's only racing."
My dog hears that a lot. He worries about me. He's in tune to every gasp, every moan, every "tsk" that escapes my lips. I try to be kind . . . more
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May 04, 2006 09:05 AM EDT --
It has been twenty-four years, now. It is easy to keep track. I was pregnant with my first daughter when my father got sick and died. She was my first, my family's first. She is what got us through . . . more
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March 14, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
The place where I work is called a retirement community. At first, I thought that was a glorified term for an apartment complex. In the year I have been here, I have learned how wrong that is.
We are . . . more
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March 25, 2006 08:03 PM EST --
How selfish can I get? I went through a lot of anger last year on my birthday. Forget that I felt trapped in a relationship that had ended more than a year before. Forget that I only had one loved-one . . . more
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April 13, 2006 07:48 AM EDT --
Some days it hits me just how much of my workday is pretend. I work with the elderly and their families. On occasion, I discuss health and mental state when a resident brings it up, or their family member . . . more
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