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🗓️ 19 July 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, well, so here we are. And we've been kind of talking about the family. And you know what I thought of Lisa? |
0:12.0 | It was 50 years ago this year that my 14 year old sister died. And I was seven years old at the time. So I guess I told everybody I'm 57 years old. |
0:21.0 | Honey, are you trying to hide that because you look really great for that age? |
0:24.0 | Thank you, sweetheart. |
0:25.0 | I think you need to be hiding that. |
0:26.0 | I made my day with that statement. But anyway, that was really roughly so I cried. |
0:31.0 | My mom and I just talked about it recently, of course, because it was 50 years. I cried. |
0:35.0 | I cried and cried for four days. And my mom said, how could you, how could that have been different for you? |
0:42.0 | Well, I didn't have an understanding of Jesus, of eternity, of what happens in death. |
0:51.0 | It wasn't something we talked about as a family. I just remember being called home from school. |
0:56.0 | I was in the first grade at the time and they called me out and being driven home and the Catholic priest was sitting in the living room. |
1:02.0 | And he said, your sister's dead. |
1:04.0 | That's all he said. |
1:05.0 | Well, basically in a little nicer way. But did you know that was... |
1:10.0 | I didn't know. It was a total shock. I knew there was serious. They had around oxygen tent at home her last couple days. |
1:19.0 | But I didn't... I thought she would live. I mean, I wasn't prepared for it. |
1:24.0 | So that's probably why I cried for four days. But also she was my very closest sister. |
1:30.0 | And my mom said to me the other day, she said, I just remember you stepping up on the neiler in the funeral home saying, |
1:37.0 | I like Kathy better alive than dead. |
1:40.0 | And I just want to... |
1:43.0 | I just want to... |
1:44.0 | No, that's why. |
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