It was all I could do not to force it out of her, but her voice, the tone, told me this was serious. I waited silently, the phone shaking in my hand. I could hear her take a deep breath.
“Dad’s gone.”
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Thoughts from the Front 
It’s hard to press “like” on such sad news.
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I hear you. The weird part, it’s suppose to be 42 words long, and I just plopped this out, and it was 43. That one word I had to remove was like cutting off a finger…or some other hard to lose body part.
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A powerful tale. Great last two words – say so much.
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Appreciate it.
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It’s hard man. Just got a 1 AM call last week from my wife in Michigan saying that her Grandfather was gone. Even though it was expected, it is never easy.
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I have gotten a few of those calls. Most have been from the nurse at Hospice telling me that I should come down, only once did I actually get a call letting me know someone was already gone. (I wonder if that’s why I hate answering the phone… hrm.)
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Whatever word it was you had to cut, the piece didn’t suffer from its absence. This gave me goosebumps…
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Thanks.
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Been there! Very powerful.
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Thanks.
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😦 hurts. a lot.
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Those calls. The ones where you sense that a shoe will drop. Or the ones that are unexpected as this one seemed to be. So sad, but a full story and captivating.
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This is so powerful.
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Thank you.
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The tension is perfectly metered. *ouch*
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😦 so sad
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It’s odd how you can tell a phone ringing with sad news apart from the mundane calls. You captured that well here.
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Thanks.
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This sounds like one of those moments that’s so vivid you can (unfortunately) play it back for the rest of your life. You did a good job of representing that, though it’s so sad. There’s a lot of sadness going around this week!
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Thanks.
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