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November 28, 2002
Turkey day
Warning: Please forgive the long wordiness tonight.
This morning we woke up at a decent time to drive 3 hours north to an area in Indiana 30 miles outside of Chicago. Yes, the area also has a reputation as the slums of Indiana coupled with having been the area with the city with the highest homicide rate (Gary, Indiana). This is where a lot of Kris's father's family lives. We ate a lot of good food, Kris did her MK thing, and I played some video games with some of her cousins.
I just got word that a good uncle of mine has passed away. As we were getting ready to leave, I got a call from my dad on my cell phone. Initially I silenced the call but did a double-take and answered the phone while thinking to myself that he's either calling to wish me happy thanksgiving (which he has never done) or something is wrong. Well he called to let me know that my uncle who had just undergone a 9 hour bypass surgery 2 weeks ago just passed away. He had put a lot of his brothers either through school or paid for them to come to the states to attend college. Life's tough huh? I really don't know what to say except it brought back a lot of memories about this past year and Kris's mom passing away. I think it's especially tough on my dad because this uncle coupled with my grandfather took a poor Thai family that farmed in Eastern Thailand all the way to a successful family in which all of the children had gone to college and all of them had become doctors, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, or pharmacists.
I guess I'm trying to filter through my thoughts and put the "meat" of them down but it's tough. Maybe tomorrow...
Posted by beamz at November 28, 2002 10:56 PM
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*hugs* sowwy Mr. :-(
I hope your father is doing okay, and everything gets better soon.
-kk
Posted by: Kate at November 30, 2002 3:53 PM