Turning 35 was something I thought about each time I went to the cemetery each Advent to visit my dad. What would it be like to actually become the same age - and then exceed - my father’s time on earth? Recently when I was speaking to my grandma on the phone, she expressed once again the hurt his death had caused her, and how she missed him so much. These aren’t easy conversations to have for me - not only are they obviously sad to have in a general sense as one consoles the

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