I hope all my Canadian followers enjoyed their thanksgiving holidays if they celebrate.
Continuing along, I don't know how to even put this into sentences, it's still so fresh in my mind. I had intended to make an update for my books, but so much had happened.
VERY DETAILED FROM HERE DOWN- WARNING! Death -
On thanksgiving morning, at 5:45, I witnessed my grandma having a stroke. Anyone who reads the Vincent crime family series knows that 'Nonna' was modeled after my own grandmother, and I was close with her.
For the first time in my life, I saw someone die. She died in my mother's arms. She was gone almost instantly, and I had to use CPR that I learned in highschool. I never thought it would be something I would have to do. I never thought that those would be my last minutes with her. There so much more I would have said to her if I had known that was the last time I would be speaking to her.
We did everything we could, and it still feels like it's not enough. I know this is normal too. No one could have done anything.
My grandmother died in her 70th year, just shy of her birthday, her 50th wedding anniversary, and so many more holidays.
We spent our thanksgiving in morning, but we did what she would have wanted us to do, and we still had thanksgiving dinner, we brought together our friends and family, and we ate in her honour. It's what she would have done, and it was what was right. I was taught that no one spends a holiday alone, and we've always welcomed our neighbors to our dinners. This year was sad, hard and different, but we continued her tradition.
I think I've rattled on enough now,
Julian.
