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Melissa Balmer
September 2009 
Papa
Posted on Jan 12th, 2008
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Melissa
Melissa
I'm crushingly tired tonight and will soon climb into bed. My grandmother passed away around 2:30 or so yesterday afternoon, quietly. The matriarch (and she was so with a capital "M") is gone. How very strange and fascinating how life both gives and takes away at the same time. My papas beautiful bride is gone, but now here for the first time since he's been together with her he is now the center of attention. Today he sat and shared with my stepfather and sister's boyfriend stories of his own past, his time in the Korean war, of Long Beach California when it had some glamour. Before it was always her stories.
But oh we'll miss her.
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