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    Family,  Grief,  Mental Health,  The Kitchen Sink

    Sometimes, It’s All I Can Do Not To Fall Apart

    Loving my brother has been both the hardest and easiest thing I’ve ever done. Today he told me a shop owner shot him in the face with a BB gun. He’d over slept and was still there when the shop opened, but instead of telling my brother to move, he just shot him.

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    Nobody tells you how lonely it can be at the forefront of something new and how every turn can feel like a wrong turn. As liberating as it may be to embark on the new, without limitations, or prescribed guidelines, it's also terrifying.

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    It used to be a sad affair, a time to reflect on what would never be again. But now, 13 years deep, “Gnome Day” as it’s known in our home, is a day to share stories with my kids so that, while they’ve never met their nana Liz, they can know her in some small way.

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