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My dad passed in 2001 and his 2 brothers passed in the years since.
(The youger of the two was my godfather, and the joke was that I looked and acted more like him than my dad)
Well the sole surviving member of my dad's family is his sister, my aunt, who had a total hysterectomy a year or so back and recently had a double mastectomy. She had done both chemo and radiation treatments and seems to be doing quite well, physically as well as mentally. Of course she lost her hair from the treatments, and found that without her hair she was the spitting image of my dad before he passed.
Needless to say her hair is starting to grow back now, but when she showed this to my brothers and sisters they started crying because she literally was his spitting image!
My mother (the saint) and I had already seen this when visiting her in the rehab hospital, so we weren't as shocked.
Hopefully we all have had many cherished moments with family and friends, so that we will enjoy the holidays more fully!
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