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Date Posted: 05:24:19 06/02/08 Mon
Author: grasshopper (Cold)
Subject: (not) Mourning

So, my Dad's Mum passed away last weekend, I heard about it Sunday around 1230 when I came downstairs (read crawled from my hungover crypt) after missing another random 'church event' (praise in the park this time no less) that Mum wanted me to go to with her.

Dad didn't tell me, Mum did. I found him by the sink later and told him that I was sorry and did not know what to say. He said that was alright there was nothing to say. And that's really all we've said about it. Weekend just gone we went to select a wreath, funeral is Wednesday when Mum asked me if I was going (I was suprised that she even asked) I said of course...later when we both couldn't sleep I explained that it was really only to be there for Dad.

Is it normal to feel, really, absolutely nothing at the passing of a relative? Granted I haven't seen her properly in over a decade...well, I have seen her twice in the last three years. Once she was in Hospital and didn't say anything, the second time she was in a nursing home and so instutionalised she didn't even want to be taken out to lunch. (Said nursing home was interesting; never mind the standard smell, what was most interesting to me was everyone positioned in the front room around a TV literally Blaring Out childrens TV (ITV it was) for these old folk...where was the Diagnosis Murder or Flog It at least?!)

Anyway. One of us has to literally scrape the dust of the shoulder of one of his suit jackets (the shoulder that faces the light when I open my wardrobe, of course).

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