every<\/span> year since I\u2019ve visited his blog. He\u2019s done it at least a couple times. This is the day his Dad died. And he includes in his post a picture of himself as a child sitting next to his Dad.<\/p>\nNow I don\u2019t know why, but each time I see the picture, it almost brings a tear to my eye. And anyone who knows me knows I\u2019m not the crying type. Yet it does. Perhaps because of the picture itself. Maybe I imagine that someday when I have gone my grown boys will look at a picture of them with me and reminisce the same way. Maybe it\u2019s because I think of the pictures<\/span> of my own Dad, ravaged by Alzheimer\u2019s<\/span>, barely recognizable, and remember those days gone by, mourning my own loss of innocence as much as his loss of identity. I don\u2019t<\/span>\u2018 know. But I know it moves me every time<\/span> he posts this.<\/p>\nSo yes, I will pray. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
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