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Two weeks gone
Perhaps he was already dying at the time and the dementia was fully setting in more than a month ago, but I jokingly asked over the phone on November 10th for him to wait until Thanksgiving to pass away and that was the last time we spoke.

Now and then I get little reminders, like for instance when I made polenta and was mixing it over the stove, I remembered that my grandmother would make him stir the mixture of polenta or mamaliga (as they call it in Romanian) because it was too much to handle for a small person. As a result, mamaliga was the only thing he could ever cook.

I received a pair of kittens last Saturday from a desperate father in the parking lot of Pet Food Express during their cat adoptions. I named the boy cat Frank. The girl cat kept her given name of Princess Jasmine or PJ for short.

When I look at them it fills the void, but in a way I already knew something was going to be empty for the past few months or maybe it was years even.

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