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Bereavement

orleans

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1. i'm sorry to hear about your grandma and your aunt

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 03:33 AM

Dec 2015

...i just hate those "firsts"
but then i didn't like the year of "seconds" either, or thirds, fourths, etc.
this is the seventh christmas without my mom and it's still hard/bad/sad

still waiting for even a bit of that christmas "spirit" to kick in. but i'm not holding my breath.

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It'll be different this Christmas. [View all] 47of74 Dec 2015 OP

i'm sorry to hear about your grandma and your aunt orleans Dec 2015 #1

I had such a hard time with the 'firsts' The worst being my Mother's dying in August of '97 auntAgonist Dec 2015 #2