Farewell
Late last night I was up in my room, everyone was asleep except myself and my father.
I heard the phone ring, and my father rush to pick it up before it woke up the house. I walked out of my room, to find him running up the stairs. I knew there and then, that it was about my grandmother, and that she had died. I asked him who it was, he said go back to bed. Then I said, "it's the nursing home, isn't". He said nodded, and entered his bedroom, and woke up my mother to bring her down to the phone.
After speaking on the phone my mother rushed up to her room and got dressed in something more suitable for going out.
I was asked to go back to sleep. However, I knew that my mother would need company so I got dressed and just followed her into the car. We drove to the nursing home, entered. And found my grandmother, lifeless. We stayed there for over an hour, we would have stayed longer. Though it was quite late, so the whole family and relatives are going for a viewing tonight.
My mother is now parent-less. Though when her father died, I was only six, and I didn't understand death at all.
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