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I am writing this, whatever this is, in light of just finding out my grandfather has to undergo emergency bypass surgery tomorrow morning. I don’t know what might happen. I am very scared and I love him very much. He is a man who keeps his true feelings hidden from everyone, much like me. I can count on one hand, actually only once that I remember, did he tell me he loves me. When I was younger I thought he didn’t care about me. I was told twenty times a day how loved I was by my mom and grandmother. Only later, after realizing I was also this same type of person, who has trouble expressing my feelings, especially love, to the ones I care about did I really know how much he cares. I can see it in the way he talks to me. As I’m writing this I can only think about how eerily similar this relationship is to the one I have with my other family. Whatever tomorrow and the days to follow bring, if nothing else, I truly have a new found appreciation for how preciously short our existence here is and that no reason is significant enough to stop me from telling the ones around me just how I feel about them. Right now, I am not sure if I’ll be able to tell my grandfather how much he has meant to me throughout my life. Fortunately, I can tell my other loved ones right now, today. I hope this message is heard by others and you can relate to it. No material gift can be worth as much as an “I love you” from the heart.
Brian of Albany, NY
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