The Day Everything Changed

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It all started December, 1, 2005 it was my Papas 57th birthday. My brother who was 14, Mom, Dad, Aunt, Uncle Tim, other Uncle who was 15, Nana, my cousins McKayla who was 6, my other cousin Zachary who was 3, two of our family friends, and I all went out to dinner for my his birthday. I was 11. He past away shortly after dinner that night. My papa and I were extremely close. I spent many days and nights with him and we shared a lot of memories I will never forget! It was life changing to loose someone that close to me and was so sad. When we showed up to dinner at Bari Bari, cooking tables located in Yorba Linda. My Papa wasn’t having a good day he was very sick and hasn’t doing good. So we eat dinner and everyone is having a good time, talking and laughing. In the middle of dinner my Papa decided he just wanted to go home, so our family friend Richard took him home so we could finish our dinner. My papa always thought it was better to give than receive. So every year on his birthday he would buy or give us all money to get something in return for us giving him, his present. So before he left to go home he gave us money to go next door to Rite Aid and get anything we wanted. I chose a purple flying pig piggy bank that makes noise when you put change in it. Ha-ha. Witch I still have. After we were done in there we were Kruger 2 standing outside talking and an ambulance went by. Right then I think we all had the feeling that something was wrong. “I have a feeling that, that is heading to our house” said Nana. After that she mentioned that Papa had said “today is the day I came and today is the day I’ll go.” Then the cell phone started to ring and at that moment we knew for a fact what was going on. So at that point that elders didn’t want us kids to know what was going on. So my brother, my uncle Gilbert, my 2 cousins and I all went with our family friend

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