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Reminder to Self and Reminder to You

Be brave. Do it scared. Refer to the sections “Scary, Scary, Scary” (page 12), “Defending Your Weakness” (page 16), “Fear Is Boring” (page 19), “The Fear You Need and the Fear You Don’t Need” (page 22), and “The Road Trip” (page 24) in Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

I Want To Talk About My Dad Dying

Disclaimer: If you’ve recently lost a loved one or have a loved one who is sick and may be dying, be warned. I am talking about my father dying young from cancer, and I do get into some detail about his dead body. My dad died two weeks and two days ago once it is 8:30 A.M. Central Standard Time on Saturday, June 16, 2018. He was forty-eight years old young (12/06/1969) and believed by four doctors to beat cancer and be cured . He didn’t experience a Father’s Day since he was diagnosed, died on his dead dad’s seventy-second birthday, died two days before his first-born son’s twenty-second birthday, was diagnosed four months after his dad died of two different forms of cancer both of which were different from the type of cancer he died of, and died two days after his dead mother-in-law’s birthday, this week will suck for the rest of our lives I chose to watch my dad's body be put into a body bag and chose to help get his body into the body bag. It helped with closure and