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My mum just called to tell me that my aunt Carol died earlier this evening. She wasn't really my aunt, but she might as well have been-- she and my mum went to college together and were friends ever since, and Carol was one of the main figures in my life when I was growing up. She was even my parents' primary reference when they adopted me. She had cancer, and had been doing well with treatments, but her kidneys were failing. More than anything, it breaks my heart that my mum just lost her best friend, and I'm 800-something miles away...I can't imagine what it's like. I'm going to see if I can take Friday off from work and go for the weekend, and mum said she's going to look into plane tickets... I'd like to go, but Jason will be away on Saturday, so I'm not sure what to do. I think I'll stop writing in sentence fragments and go to bed.