grandmother passed away last week...today was my first funeral Posted: 02-11-08 18:44pm
So I am 20 years old, and my grandmother
was 96. She passed away last Tuesday
night. The funeral and stuff was today.
This is the first funeral and such that I
have ever been to...no one close to me has
ever died...I cried some last week and a
little today but I cried a lot on my way
back to school today...My sister and I
were her only grandkids, my dad is an only
child. All the people who came to the
viewing today especially the ones I have
never met...all they kept saying was "oh I
know all about you and your sister, your
grandmother was so proud of you and you
guys were all she ever talked about" and I
know she was proud of us but I didn't
realize just how proud she was and just
how much she loved us until the people
told me today, and I feel guilty because
my sister and I never really wanted to go
see her a lot because she was kind of mean
sometimes...she was like a mean old
italian woman haha..and it's kind of real
now that I won't ever get to hug her or
kiss her, or argue with her anything
anymore (we used to argue about stupid,
funny stuff...like my freckles) I just
didn't realize how proud of us she really
was...and just how much she talked about
us in good ways..and it breaks my hear
that I didn't spend more time with her.
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lonestarguy
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Posted: 02-11-08 19:13pm
Almost all grandmothers are proud of their
grandkids and what you experienced is not
new. My own grandmother on my mother's
side lived to be 100 and just died in 2004
and she outlived my mother and her sister.
We were very close and she always told us
how proud she was of us as we grew up.
The first death we had in my family came
when I was 15 and it was a shock to me.
Now, I'm at the age where I'm starting to
lose the people around me. Since 2003,
I've lost my grandmother, my brother, two
cousins and my mother-in-law two weeks
ago.
You were lucky you knew your grandmother
as long as you did and that she valued you
as much as she did.
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