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Home Away From Home

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You are here: Home »Home Away From Home Left to right: Christopher, Captain Imperfecto and Nico waiting for football September 17, 2014 It’s a strange feeling to walk in a cemetery where I know I’ll be buried once I die. Death and being buried doesn't scare me and I didn’t choose to live my afterlife here. It kind of chose me. It’s the location where Mimie and I buried our twin daughters. And it is where I buried Mimie when she died in 2012. “I want to be here with my daughters,” Mimie said as we stood at the front of the grave marker of our little girls, Sophia and Gabriella. “I agree. Me too,” I said. I wrapped my arm around her shoulders and we stood there as our silent tears slowly rolled down our cheeks. I have gone to the cemetery every two weeks and placed fresh flowers in the iron vase that is attached to the granite cover to Mimie’s mausoleum. I’ve been doing this deed for over two years now, since her death. I feel bad because I don’t walk...