<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">My Uncle Patrick died earlier this morning from liver cancer.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I chose to not say goodbye to him when I had the chance.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And yes we were close.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">But I don't do well with death and my mom told me he didn't look the same.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">So I decided to let my last time around him be a happy one.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I didn't visit him at the hospital after we were told he probably only had the weekend to live.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And sure enough, it's Monday and he's gone.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">The funeral will be sometime this week.</span>

Since Miss Nat was around him many times, I will bring her.

<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Strange thought – buying a black dress for a little girl to wear to a funeral.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Even stranger thought – burying your son. I can't even imagine how my grandmother is feeling right now.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I just want this week to be over and it's only just begun.
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</p><p style="background: white"><span style="color:#444444; font-family:Georgia"><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong>Next stop – </strong>Taking the kidlets to Long Island today to spend the day with their Grandma Jenny. Great Neck here we come.</span><span style="font-size:9pt">
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</p><p style="background: white"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><span style="color:#444444"><strong>Car Song</strong> – <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtivSTZrezc"></a></span>Time to Say Goodbye<span style="color:#444444"> by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli </span></span></p>