נר נשמה‎

[aadroma]

Damned Jewish calendar. It would, of course, figure that my mother's Yartzeit would fall on Thanksgiving. I can't believe it's been a year -- an akwardly elongated Jewish year at that -- that my mother has been gone. In many ways, I am what I am (an illustrator, a linguist -- even a self-idenfitied Jew) because of my mother, and it's still so

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[fogbear]

Hugs, fellow orphan.

32 is definitively not "much later than others who find themselves parentless." I was 31 and it was very unusual. I know people well into their 50s who have at least one parent still living.

I remember going to a wedding the summer after my mother died. A rather clueless young woman (the girlfriend of a friend) came to me and said, "Oh my g*d! You're an orphan! You've got nobody left!" I was rendered speechless.

It only gets easier from here.

[maxauburn]

I don't know how it feels to not have parents
anymore, because mine are still alive, but I can imagine it's rough.

((BIG HUGS))

[darkphuque]

and you have a lot of people who love you. You family moves far beyond blood, my friend. When I was 25 I voluntarily gave up my family. Yes, I orphaned myself but I had a family outside of blood connections and it wasn't long before I saw how important that was. Just know that you are loved by many....