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ποΈ 29 February 2020
β±οΈ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | I was young when my dad died. |
0:05.6 | Not so young that I don't have memories of him or that I didn't understand what death |
0:09.2 | was, but I was young, nonetheless. |
0:14.9 | I was young enough that all I remember besides being told the dad had a horrific accident, |
0:22.0 | and the funeral was that soon. |
0:26.9 | I was packing up and moving to a new house. |
0:31.4 | My dad had been the breadwinner by far, and we just couldn't afford to live in our old |
0:35.2 | house anymore. |
0:36.2 | To this day I can remember my poor mother crying. |
0:39.8 | Back then I'd assumed that my mother's consistent weakening was just because dad had died. |
0:49.4 | Now, well, in my adult years I understood that it was also because she knew that she |
0:54.6 | couldn't provide for me as well as he could have. |
0:58.2 | Our nice two-story house in the city was just far too expensive for us at that point. |
1:03.9 | We had to pack up and move a couple hours away to the countryside, which my mother had |
1:08.6 | to take up two jobs in the small town near us to be able to afford. |
1:14.7 | Our new house was pleasant. |
1:15.7 | It was small, but it was nice. |
1:18.0 | It was located in a pretty well-to-do neighborhood. |
1:21.3 | The people who lived around us weren't rich, not even middle class, but at some of the |
1:25.3 | biggest hearts I'd ever seen. |
1:27.9 | I remember getting endless mac and cheese dinners from neighborhoods with big smiles after |
1:32.0 | moving, and non-stop peek-and-pies when the season was right. |
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