The Day My World Changed

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The morning of September 28, 2010 started as any other week day, the alarms of the morning sounding. It was time to get the girls up and ready to go to school. As I walked through my Mothers room to wake Diana, whose room was above my Mothers, I glanced over at my sweet Mother and realized she wasn't breathing. She was laying very peacefully in bed with the sun streaming on her face. I knew the day had come. My entire world stopped at that very moment. The conversation Mom and I had the night before had become reality. I knew she was tired fighting everyday to stay with us and I had told her it was okay, she could go, we would be fine, never realizing it would actually happen so soon. Then it hit me, I had to do something, I had to get it together, for the girls. I called Diana down for breakfast, she skipped down the stairs with her book bag and sat at the table. Relief struck as I realized she had not noticed that the person that she loved the most next to me had passed away. Stephanie was ready as well, unaware of any discord in the normal school day routine. We all ate very quickly that morning, and off to school they went. The next step was hard for me, I called the hospice help line and notified them that my Mother had passed, and then I called my sister, Winnie. Winnie is my parents only natural child, she is 72 years old. We never lived in the same house together, I was adopted at the age of 18 months. Winnie and I had our moments as all sisters do, however she never understood how my parents could love me as they loved her when I was not their flesh and blood. When she answered the phone that day I knew our relationship had come to an end. Her reaction was not what I expected, the phone was silent, then she spoke. She refused to come to her own Mothers funeral! I understood she lived in Tuscon, Arizona, but how can anyone not come to their own

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