My Niece
My older sister had her first child last Friday–the first grandchild in our family–a beautiful baby girl. I was busy all weekend, or thought I was, so I didn’t go and see them–I was planning on stopping by after my mom came up later this week. However, yesterday at about 7:30 my niece stopped breathing in the emergency room and couldn’t be resuscitated, so the opportunity to get to know her is gone forever. Now instead of a happy family occasion we’re planning a funeral–now my mom has come up to help her daughter cope with grief instead of with a newborn. The funeral will be this week sometime–I’m sort of out of the loop, since my sister is incommunicada, and my mom is apparently occupied.
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