Are your parents still alive?
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hollydolly
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- London England
My mother died in 1973... even before both of my grandmothers...my father in 2008
oldaunt
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Dad died in 1983, Mom in 2009.
PeppermintPatty
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Yes! They are both in their 90ās
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss.
jujube
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I lost my dad in '94 and my mom in 2020.
OldFeller
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- Pennsylvania, USA
My mother died in 1970. My father (and my wife) died in 2009.
Unfortunately not. I miss them every single day. I remember when I was much younger and I never gave death a thought and that things would be different. I wish I would have realized how many years I would have to live without seeing them, I may have done more things and shared more time with them. Each year now, I seem to lose at least one or more old friends, real friends, not acquaintances. Sometimes I feel very lonely because I can't see or speak to my parents or old friends.
Every few years, I take a ride back to my old home town and park my ride down at the park and walk through the village. We have a class breakfast once a month, a veterans breakfast once a month and a prior resident of the village breakfast also once a month. I try to make them all, but that seldom happens. When I show up at the prior residents breakfast, I am flooded with questions about flying. People will ask me why is it so hard to get through the airports, why are planes late or cancelled, why don't they serve food anymore? I have no answers for these types of questions, so I tell them, "I don't mean to blow you off, but I don't know,"
Every few years, I take a ride back to my old home town and park my ride down at the park and walk through the village. We have a class breakfast once a month, a veterans breakfast once a month and a prior resident of the village breakfast also once a month. I try to make them all, but that seldom happens. When I show up at the prior residents breakfast, I am flooded with questions about flying. People will ask me why is it so hard to get through the airports, why are planes late or cancelled, why don't they serve food anymore? I have no answers for these types of questions, so I tell them, "I don't mean to blow you off, but I don't know,"
Alligatorob
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No, both of my parents are gone. Mother in 2009, father in 2011.
First line now...
First line now...
feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
The two parental holidays do the same to me---my Mom died in 1985, Dad in 1995. Two of my older sisters have also passed the remaining one turned 82 at end of May. My only brother is 16 years my junior and if he dies before me i'll be as devastated as i would over one of my kids or my grandson predeceasing me.
dobielvr
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- California
Both of my parents passed in 2004.
I still visit and take flowers to the cemetery.
I still visit and take flowers to the cemetery.
Llynn
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- Pacific NorthWET
Both long gone, not that my father was any loss to me.
officerripley
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- Porlock, Calif
Birth father died in 2007 and birth mother in 2012.
Packerjohn
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- Canada
Papa died in 1972; Mama died in 1998. I'm 77 and still "hard to kill."
debodun
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- way upstate in New York, USA
My dad passed in April 1983 at age 61 (metastasized renal carcinoma). Mom passed in November 2006 at age 76 (CHF).
My brother said something like that after our father died and it is rather chilling.
We were expecting a long gap before we kids started dying but my oldest brother died about four years ago and that was a real shock. Neither of my brothers had any children and my son wont be having any, so our line stops with him.
....unless... Way back in 1968 my best friend got pregnant while in college and put the baby up for adoption. The father was either a college boy she was going with, or my brother with whom she had a weekend fling. Boy would I love to meet that, now 55, baby girl.
Aunt Mavis
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Pops is still around. Mom died last August 20th.
David777
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- Silicon Valley
I have faith and hope they exist with the Lord. I love you!
hollydolly
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- London England
My oldest brother is 77 he has MS.... but he still functions... we've kinda been expecting him to go for years tbh.. but he's ok.... all my other siblings are younger than me.. and still alive...
DaveA
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- Coastal Massachusetts, USA
My folks both passed in 1965 at ages 66 and 67. My wife and I are 87 and 89. All 4 of our kids are still with us and in their 60's.
We also have 12 grandkids and 13 great grands. I only wish my folks had lived to see the family that followed me - - -their only child. They did get to see our kids as little ones but none of the rest of the crowd.
On a side note - - -all of our family, with the exception of one grandson and wife, live nearby within a 100 mile radius. They socialize amongst themselves independent of my wife and I.
We have been truly blessed when it comes to family.
We also have 12 grandkids and 13 great grands. I only wish my folks had lived to see the family that followed me - - -their only child. They did get to see our kids as little ones but none of the rest of the crowd.
On a side note - - -all of our family, with the exception of one grandson and wife, live nearby within a 100 mile radius. They socialize amongst themselves independent of my wife and I.
We have been truly blessed when it comes to family.
Remy
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- California, USA
Dead beat bio dad and my mother both gone. Enabler stepfather still here.