It's been 40 years...

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It's been 40 years...

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... today since my Dad died. I'm 11 years older than he was when he died (45).

Boy do I miss him. :cry:
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I hear You loud and clear....40 years ago this week I was Married... and in December My Dad passed. what I wouldn't give to sit down with a Drink and listen to some stories about My people and the land I grew up on. It's a Tough Life.
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Next week it will be 4 years since I lost my Dad. Not a day goes by I don't think of him, one of his jokes- even though most were old groaners!
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Rough on a family when the Dad dies young.
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Been without my dad for fifty years and my mom for 26, my sister and my brother are gone too. :(
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I'm blessed to still have my both parents among the living :D ! It nice when your parents have there children very young! Planned or not!
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You are indeed blessed to still have them.
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I lost my mom about three and a half years ago. It's been tough to say the least. My mother-in-law, the year before that. My wife's father died many years ago, but she never knew him. He split when she was about 2 years old. Michelle doesn't talk about it much, she loved my mom and just adores my dad.
My dad just turned 80 last month and is in great shape. I hate it when he leaves for FL every year, but I understand. We try to call or text every day or two, but he's harder to find now than when he was before he retired. Always getting into something.

Jay, it makes me very sad you didn't get to know your dad. I bet he would be very happy to know what a good person you are.

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My Dad is 91 and Mom will be 81 in April. Both alive, but health is declining.
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Ysabel Kid wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:09 pm ... today since my Dad died. I'm 11 years older than he was when he died (45).

Boy do I miss him. :cry:
Yeah, it stinks Jay...

13 years since I lost my Dad -- almost to the day... Sure do miss him.

Meeting you and your wonderful family (the people, that is -- not just "the collection" I've help you build...), think of all he's missed... My wife's father & mother both passed in the mid 40s as well -- way too early, much too young...

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It's coming up on 5 years since my wife passed.
My Mom passed in 2009, just before we moved to Africa.
Dad passed in 2011 while we were there.
It was Christmas Day. I woke up, having just dreamed of seeing my Mom and how excited she was at Christmas Time. She was that way until she died ... so excited she could barely sleep on Christmas Eve.
I sent a quick text to my Sister in the States, telling her I had seen Momma in a dream and that she was excited about Christmas.
My sister immediately replied, "Yes, she is. Daddy went to be with her last night."
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It's not fair losing a good father that young.
coincidentally it's 40 years since my folks divorced. Only ran into my father twice after that which was two times more than I'd have liked. he came out of the army changed, tended to use anything around as a punching bag if you get what I mean and was a big rawboned guy 6'2 and about 210 lean. I always said if I ran into him as an adult we would see whats what. I ended up an inch taller and about another 50lbs heavier too. Got to see him at my grandmothers funeral, a bent over worn out old man. No point being angry.
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Forty one years ago my Father went in for a Hernia operation. Put him under and his heart stopped. He came out of the hospital with a triple bypass. He was 49. He was an outdoorsman and would of surely died of a heart attack working on the farm or out in the woods hunting. So I was lucky to have him around till 4 years ago. His friends didn't take heed. His best friends died of heart attacks at 52 and 54. When I was young a lot of good men that I looked up to died too young from heart failure. Times have changed and people pay attention to their health better than they used. All the old curmudgeons here is proof of that. :D

I still talk to my Dad in my dreams. Nothing has changed, he seems to always pull up in his truck, saying to jump in because we have fencing to do or something else that needs to be done. As always I jump in and the conversation start.
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