Posted 02 March 2006 - 02:45 AM
This is to my grand-father, Robert Davis Kilby aka Papa. When he died a little before March in the year 2001, school was halfway over, when the guidance counselor told me to get my stuff to go home. At first, I was thinking, yippee; I'm going home! But then I saw my pastor and my mom waiting outside... Mom was crying, and Revered Jeff looked very forlorn and grave. I asked what was wrong, and Mom said that Papa had passed away.
I remember just looking at the two and saying "You're joking, right?" I couldn't believe that my grand-father, whom I adored greatly, had passed away earlier that morning from a heart attack.
We drove down to Key Largo where my grandmother and grandfather lived. I remember how I had my GameBoy in the car, and that I named my Pokemon after each member in our family, my favorite, Blastoise, being named after Papa.
I was about 8 at the time and my little brother 3, so of course we had no idea of what was really going on. When we arrived at their condominuim, many of our relatives were there, and I showed my Aunt Marcy how I named my Pokemon after all of my relatives. All she could do was smile weakly and ask me not to dwell on such things and to go watch television... I went into one of the rooms, and I think it was there that it hit me- Whoa, he's gone.
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Imma postin ur fohrums, lolz.