terrifying things in swimming pools – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:27:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 December 7 https://orangette.net/2016/12/december-7/ https://orangette.net/2016/12/december-7/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:59:54 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=9774 Today it’s been 14 years since my dad died, and in most ways, it seems like longer than that. I’ve done a lot of living – maybe too much? – in those 14 years. But I can still hear his voice in my head, and I can still feel the hug he gave me in our driveway before I left to drive to Seattle for graduate school, in September of 2002. Burg would be 87 now, and I’m sort of glad I never had to see him diminished by old age – or, at least, not more than he was diminished in his last weeks, as cancer had its way with him. He would be glad to know that Mom and I now…

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