re: How do you deal with the death of your parents?

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So many surreal moments from the time I got the phone call until the time we got home from the funeral. Also a lot of moments and days in there I don't even remember. Some of it was a blur and some of it is ingrained in great detail in my mind.

It's going back to work, trying to sleep on that first night after they're buried...you realize that your world has taken a huge hit, but the world itself doesn't notice and life goes on.

You'll find yourself getting emotional when you least expect it and not being emotional at all when you think you should. I personally will never get over the loss of my dad (my best friend and mentor), but I cope with it better and better every day that life goes on. And maybe....hopefully, I can be half the man, father and person he was someday.

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It was like a kick in the gut, and everytime I go home to visit my mom I find myself looking for him. And like a previous poster stated, you will find yourself all of a sudden having an emotional spell. I find they come less and less often thankfully. But you never get over it and will always miss him/her.

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I find myself daydreaming about our going fishing, just the two of us, in our little flat boat and really miss that. I even think about how I loved how he would tie my cleats so tight so the shoestrings wouldn't come undone as a six year old, how he so enjoyed a State Championship Game run my Senior year, and the letter he wrote me the day of the CG telling me how proud of me he was, but mostly, his last words to me hours before he went Home, "I Love You, son."

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