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[griqkincaid]

Twenty-three days is not a long time. Less than a month. Not even enough time to know who you are or why you're here. Is it enough time to understand your parents love you? Not even enough time to comprehend that there is life outside of a hospital

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[thetwinheavens]

My dad is, interestingly enough, not the 3rd born but the 4th. He had an older sister that he never knew. Her name was Cheryl, and she lived to be 3 and died in a car accident. I remember when I was really little going to a gravestone, and my dad telling me that I would've had another aunt had things turned out differently. That was actually how my dad explained death to me in the first place.

[abc123dog]

I have two uncles and an aunt. I don't wanna sound like this is one-upsmanship cause this is something I don't wanna win. Apparently when our parents were kids death was very common when you were young. At my grandpas funeral people were looking through an old album and I had an uncle hit by a car and another crushed by a tractor and then an aunt drowned. so... crazy kids in the 40's and 50's

[linkyblank]

Thats a very interesting discovery, how were you able to find out? I have always been interested in figuring out some of my family's geneaology.

[griqkincaid]

One of the Gutjahr (Goodyear) family began an online genealogy site and my family a very closely related to the Gutjahr line. Suffice to say there are several dirty secrets up there.

[coyo_kokopelli]

I learned years ago that my dad had a brother who was stillborn and never named. His body was buried on the family farm (pretty common in the 1930's). He would have been older than my dad and would be close to 80 now.