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by YankeeTarheel
So sorry, Eris! That really is more important than whether you gun lockup is lousy, barely adequate, mediocre, or highly secure.
Both my parents are gone, my dad 17 years ago next month, my mom 5 years ago, and yet, it still feels like yesterday. At the end of June, my brothers and I along with those of our children who could be there, cast Mom's ashes in the same waters we cast Dad's.
I still miss them both, terribly, and expect I always will. But I also love to laugh at the stories we all tell about them--my dad swimming like a fish underwater in their pool in his 80's...but "forgetting" to take his hated hearing aid out! Or my mom, teaching my infant son, to remove his high-chair table...which he proudly did for me when my wife was travelling, while a contractor needed to get a check, dumping his ENTIRE dinner in my lap!
You, too, will, I hope, remember the good times. I handled the probate for my mom's estate and my two brothers, though older, were thrilled they didn't have to deal with, what in NJ was, 2 years of bullshit. I hope Kentucky is easier.
But most important, you have my condolences and empathy.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."