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whistler162

(11,155 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 08:52 PM Oct 2013

Beware the ides of October......

a happy memory and a sad memory today.

49 years ago my brother was born.
8 years ago my father died.

When we packed up my fathers apartment the same brother asked me what I had in my trunk. I told him Dad, more specifically his cremains.

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Beware the ides of October...... (Original Post) whistler162 Oct 2013 OP
indeed. 52 years ago today my brother was born... NRaleighLiberal Oct 2013 #1
. In_The_Wind Oct 2013 #2

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
1. indeed. 52 years ago today my brother was born...
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:04 PM
Oct 2013

and my wife's mom entered hospice this evening. Life is both sweet and bitter.

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