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rosa_heartlily) wrote2018-03-22 08:11 am
rosa_heartlily) wrote2018-03-22 08:11 am
Still trying to process...
My husband woke me up early on Sunday and said, 'I don't know how to tell you this but our niece is dead.'
Our niece was a month older than our daughter - she was 30 in January. Her mother died (of natural causes) less than 2 years ago. She was killed pretty much instantly by a car and the driver was arrested for causing death by dangerous driving. She was on a night out for St Patrick's night with a friend who is still in hospital.
We were never close - unlike our other nephews and nieces, she didn't really enjoy going out with us. But she and our daughter were pretty close when they were kids. I hadn't seen her since her mother's funeral but our daughter happened to bump into her last week when she was buying wallpaper for her bedroom. There are still so many feelings.
- she was our daughter's age, ffs!
- she lived with her uncle and one of her brothers - what happens to them, now?
- two funerals - mother and daughter - in less than two years
- we may not have liked how she lived her life, but she enjoyed it
- you just don't know what's going to happen 5 minutes from now
Our niece was a month older than our daughter - she was 30 in January. Her mother died (of natural causes) less than 2 years ago. She was killed pretty much instantly by a car and the driver was arrested for causing death by dangerous driving. She was on a night out for St Patrick's night with a friend who is still in hospital.
We were never close - unlike our other nephews and nieces, she didn't really enjoy going out with us. But she and our daughter were pretty close when they were kids. I hadn't seen her since her mother's funeral but our daughter happened to bump into her last week when she was buying wallpaper for her bedroom. There are still so many feelings.
- she was our daughter's age, ffs!
- she lived with her uncle and one of her brothers - what happens to them, now?
- two funerals - mother and daughter - in less than two years
- we may not have liked how she lived her life, but she enjoyed it
- you just don't know what's going to happen 5 minutes from now
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