“I watched him sketch out that second attempt and smile at it. He looked up and said, ‘How’s this one? I think this one is better, don’t you think?’ Maybe he was imagining it actually being tattooed on me and how that would feel, after he was gone.”
‘I didn’t realize how much I would miss my dad’s handwriting. I didn’t know handwriting could be part of the grieving process. Mourning handwriting? But I did. I still do.’
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“His coworker saw one of their work trucks in a bad accident on the highway. My heart started to race, and I frantically continued to call Brian over and over again. Still no answer. When I got into his apartment, I tried to keep my mind busy. I started to fold his laundry until I couldn’t shake this terrible feeling.”
‘The last note he wrote me said ‘LOVE’’: Dying father’s handwritten notes to daughter before she had to do ‘THE HARDEST THING’ for him
“It’s hard to read, but I knew what he was trying to say. As he was writing it, I said, ‘Are you writing you love me?’ He shook his head yes.”
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“No amount of emojis or words can really express what it meant to our family to be welcomed by Jake’s family.”
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“My lunch table came to expect these notes. As soon as my friends and I sat down to eat, they’d look at me expectantly to see what pearls of wisdom my dad provided.”
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“I wanted to kill myself today, because of u I now do not.”
