As we grow older, time just seems to move faster. You get to hear this more and more often; "but hadn't the year just begun!". As a kid, it always seemed absurd to hear an adult say, "I can't believe you've grown up so soon/tall". We've all rolled our eyes on such remarks. Now, I feel the same way about my niece, my friend's kids. They were all so teeny tiny, what felt like maybe just a year or two ago. Don't think any of the kids are having unusual growth spurts, but their two/three years become far more visible to us than maybe the few grays elusively growing at the back of our heads. Life is strange. Just as I am contemplating about time, received a call from my mother informing me of her eldest sister's passing away. This year she has lost one brother-in-law and now a sister. Every death is a suffering for the survivors. But we grieve differently for each one and possibly for different reasons. We cry for our dead, the one who wi
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