My cousin's funeral was today. It was awful. So many high school kids, so many people just heartbroken. Just seeing his mother killed me. I don't know how on earth she was able to be there.
My dad's oldest brother, my cousin's grandfather, never ever shows any kind of emotion or anything. He was a crying, broken mess today.
Hug your children extra tight tonight. No parent should ever have to bury their child.

Re: Terrible, horrible, no-good, really, really shitty day.
I am so sorry, A. It's so hard. We buried my cousin in August, and a day still doesn't pass without getting that sick-pitted feeling in my stomach when I think about his life, and how his parents have to cope with each day.
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I'm sorry. I can't imagine my child passing before me.
My cousin was killed in Afghanistan in May and I see all the time how much my aunt misses him. It's so heartbreaking.