mourning

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celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 11 Jul

Mourning was a social obligation when black wardrobes came out, shutters were drawn and anything that even vaguely resembled joy was banished to the attack. And the black had to be matte, lifeless and without any decoration. It...

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No boredom today

TaxiLady @Ghostlady (2356) • United States 5 May 25

Was busy busy today...laundry, cleaned the kitchen, cleared my desk area, fed the naighbor kitties and the squirrels. Later found out a friend of ours passed away this morning. Tom put my curtains up in my bedroom and cooked...

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Mourning my daughter ANN

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (3480) • Eldoret, Kenya 12 Oct 24

In August 2016 I met a single mother of one. I liked her and sooner we began living together. It was a wonderful life. The child, a shy, humble and ever smiling little girl was about 4 years old when I married her mother. She...

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In a Funk

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 1 Sep 24

Like many of you, I’m in a funk over the sad news of the passing of one of our myLotters, Kharla. Earlier today B (@pitsipeahie ) wrote a discussion about how myLot is a “community” of sorts. And it really is. Where else can...

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I've been on hiatus

Jessa Arienda @Hanbinandaeyo (3299) 11 Jul 22

Woaaah.. Good to get it here this time.. So much have happened this past month.. I went on a Voting, went to pre medical, after 3 days of coming back from my medical, my Hubby's mom passed away due to cancer. Got quite long days...

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How an infinite number of people starts calling after Death?!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 30 Jan 21

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good. As most of you know that I recently lost my dad and it's already been two weeks since he passed away. I wonder how time flies! My dad had...

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A close death.

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 2 Nov 20

This morning I heard that my most beloved professor, the one who helped me with my thesis, had died. I had not seen him for a long time. I wonder now if he ever knew how many times I thought about him and how much I respected...

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My Best Friends F and B

M1DN1GHTS0UL @m1dn1ghts0ul (63) • Canada 25 May 20

I can't help but feel somewhat jealous that a lot of people have their best friends alive and kicking. I tend to live in the past a lot. Here's why... When I was 8 years old, my parents decided that we would move in with my...

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Are we prepared for mourning?

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 5 Apr 20

When we are alone at home there are several things we think about. I am old and don´t worry about my death much. I have led and I have lived a good life. But what about mourning? I lost a grandson to cancer almost 20 years ago...

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Professional Mourners?

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3447) • United States 5 Sep 19

I just came across one of the strangest jobs I've ever heard of. A professional mourner. They get paid to stand with people at funerals and mourn with them, or comfort them as they mourn as I understand it. What do you all think...

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Mourning Day

Yanzalong @yanzalong (19091) • Indonesia 24 Jul 19

I was sleeping last night and suddenly woke up on hearing loud knocks of my room door. I opened it to find that our landlady passed away of heart attack. It was 23:30. I went out of the room to join the crowd of her relatives to...

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My bosses dog aka my dog too lol

Kayla Stevens @Frenchie2009 (132) 29 May 19

We found my bosses dog 8 years ago in my trash can. Poor thing was so malnourished and scared of just about everyone. We took him in and took him to the vet found out he was a former bait dog and he must have broke loose at some...

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Invitations.

amnabas @amnabas (14877) • Karachi, Pakistan 1 Dec 18

It's 1st December here and now my mother in law asking me to invite the relatives for her daughter's wedding.she will personally won't invite as she lost her mother a month ago.She is still mourning.

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Hard Time with this Season

MakingCents @MakingCents (743) 25 Nov 18

December and January have not been kind months to my family. Nothing crazy tragic has happened, but a lot of 'bad' has happened and I feel like this time of year more than anything triggers the memories. Everytime Christmast...

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Movie Review Summer 1993

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Oct 18

The film festival featured two movies today, with Summer 1993 being the first. A Spanish Catalan film from 2017, based on the childhood of the writer, Carla Simon. It tells of a six year old girl, Frida, sent to a...

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Rest In Peace Little Kuma

DianneN @DianneN (254949) • United States 19 Oct 18

Kuma lived for two months and 1 day after her diagnosis of a rare and aggressive sarcoma. She hid in my closet for the last 9 days. We fed her, brushed, and rubbed her in there. The vets arrived Thursday at our house. Kuma...

poor precious little kuma

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Poem The Papercut Of Doom

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 15 Jul 18

So great to see @Jessicalynnt return, along with her poetry challenges. The first is to use the following five words in a verse penned within an hour. " storm, wash, fall, bird, hope." Here goes. The Papercut of Doom Cruel...

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Mourning on a Sunday Morning

Louise Crisologo @mlgen1037 (29882) • Manila, Philippines 3 Jun 18

Hello Everybody! I was on vacation for three days and I tried to be present here while resting from work (still working actually) but limited data connection. I am still tired until now as we were awake until the wee hours of the...

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Mourning Fog

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 7 May 18

Sometimes you have to step back and look back to see that things weren't the way you thought. I got a wake-up call to do just that last week. You see, I thought I was doing well in handling my dad's death. It was hardly a...

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Remembering a Great Young Man

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 4 Apr 18

April 4, 3 years ago, was gonna be a really big day. I was kicking off my Biblical counseling ministry that morning. We were having a ladies' Bible study at my home that morning with my husband and a couple of his friends serving...