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Saying Goodbye to My Grandfather

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When you fall you always get up, correct? Well we all have attended that one ceremony that takes the real inner you out and shows it to the world. Well for me that ceremony was my great grandfather's viewing. For me it was very strange mainly because I had never ever had a family member pass away, it was like "wow, it actually happened . And on the drive down for the funeral and all that, I sat in my mother's car wondering how I was going to tackle this situation, only because I was never close to my great grandfather. He and my great grandmother lived about 2 hours north of Miami, where as I live 1 hour north of Orlando. But when it came time for the viewing I didn't cry for I had unfortunately not knew him the way my grandmother or mother did, so I did what a wonderful grandson or son would do, I helped them with the pain and the anger. I sat with them and we hugged and I told them it would be ok. So in the following paragraphs I'll explain how I helped myself with my inner feelings and my inner me and how I overcame this life changing situation. Well with the passing of my great grandfather I did some things that I had never done before, I let everyone in. As I let everybody see how I felt about it we all gathered as one to see how we as a family we were going to cope with the loss. When my mother told my sister and I that our grandfather had died we said "What, You're kidding right? He's like 96 years old , that was the first thing on my mind. He was 96 years old with not a single health issue or mental issue and out of nowhere told that he had died. So the first thing I did to try to deal with the situation the best way I could was to ask "When are we leaving?  and that pretty much set the course. When we got to Miami (that's where the funeral was going to be held only because they lived in a small town that had no funeral homes or cemeteries) I got out of the car and entered the funeral home, I found the clerk and as

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