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Dearest Aunt Susan,
It has been a year since the cancer plucked the strength from your bones and called down the chariots of heaven to take you home. Not a day has passed that I do not think of you. Not a day has passed since I remember the promise which I was never able to keep. I feel horrible for this, though I know deep in my heart, you are smiling down on me and telling me not to worry about it. You and I were of like mind. We looked at the world with morbid curiosity and humor. We shared our thoughts every week, though every week since you’ve been gone it goes without saying that I am still waiting. I haven’t brought myself to erase your number from my phone. I keep waiting for the emails that will never come, the laughs we can no longer share and the smiles I will never see.
It has been raining for the last four days, today being no exception. The rain is joined by my tears as I remember the last time I saw your smiling face. It doesn’t get easier sometimes. I could never find the words to thank you when I wanted to. I could never bring myself to realize that our time is short on this Earth. I feel like a fool for never saying these words. I feel like a fool for not realizing that I can’t take anyone for granted. I love you madly, I always have. I miss you every day. I hope that as the days pass and time places distance between tragedy and healing. I hope that when I meet the pearly gates that I will embrace you once again.
It has been a year since the cancer plucked the strength from your bones and called down the chariots of heaven to take you home. Not a day has passed that I do not think of you. Not a day has passed since I remember the promise which I was never able to keep. I feel horrible for this, though I know deep in my heart, you are smiling down on me and telling me not to worry about it. You and I were of like mind. We looked at the world with morbid curiosity and humor. We shared our thoughts every week, though every week since you’ve been gone it goes without saying that I am still waiting. I haven’t brought myself to erase your number from my phone. I keep waiting for the emails that will never come, the laughs we can no longer share and the smiles I will never see.
It has been raining for the last four days, today being no exception. The rain is joined by my tears as I remember the last time I saw your smiling face. It doesn’t get easier sometimes. I could never find the words to thank you when I wanted to. I could never bring myself to realize that our time is short on this Earth. I feel like a fool for never saying these words. I feel like a fool for not realizing that I can’t take anyone for granted. I love you madly, I always have. I miss you every day. I hope that as the days pass and time places distance between tragedy and healing. I hope that when I meet the pearly gates that I will embrace you once again.
It's been a year to the day since I lost my beloved Aunt Susan. We were incredibly close, I can't believe that she's gone. It's still hard to believe.
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This is beautiful, if obviously more in a bittersweet way than a joyous way. It reminds me of my grandfather on my mother's side, who also died of cancer.