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gemini_604

How Do You Apologize to the Dead?

Oct 14, 2007 15:05

I wanted to share this with everyone: I got an email from both my mother and my grandfather yesterday. (It reminded me how much I love and miss them!) Grandpa’s was short kinda short. It warned me that there are a couple more people on the dig, one of them being a friend of Dr. Denauve’s, and for me not to worry about making up work because I’ve ( Read more... )

jiichan, family history, letters from home, okasan, death, forgiveness

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pharoahatemu October 14 2007, 22:33:25 UTC

Hang on! Your mother, who can barely work an AM/FM radio, emails you?

gemini_604 October 14 2007, 23:03:57 UTC

Uh-huh! I taught her how before we left. Now she can keep me updated on how the Game Shop is doing.

Grandpa also showed her livejournal, so she's recently been watching the community off and on. She ca't sign up, of course, because her English is really bad!

pharoahatemu October 14 2007, 23:09:57 UTC

"Catching up?" Wait, she's been reading our journals!?! You mean, she knows...

gemini_604 October 14 2007, 23:12:05 UTC

*sheepish laugh* Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that... She figured out that Amelda is a man, and so is Zigfried!

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violetrosedew October 14 2007, 22:51:32 UTC

Yugi, I understand. You're mother didn't know either. I'm sure that he's looking down und he's very proud of you. He wouldn't have visited your dreams if he didn't love you. I just wished I could see my father once more.

gemini_604 October 14 2007, 23:10:56 UTC

I wish you could too, Zigfried! I know its not in Atem's power anymore to help you with that, but your chance may come! I know it will!

violetrosedew October 14 2007, 23:14:43 UTC

*smiles sincerely* Either way, I think that in a way, the dead have ways of speaking to us through our dreams or through something that's close to us that serves a reminder to the person. *sighs* I think he did when Atem came into my home.

You see, my father carried my secret to his grave. Now that my mother is out of the home, the comfort that I felt from my father is still here. I no longer fear, just as you no longer carry guilt from your uncle's passing. *feels tears threaten* It's all a matter of how we remember them that makes us carry on with their memories.

pharoahatemu October 14 2007, 23:27:30 UTC

Well said, Zigfried!

And consider this, Aibou: If her family is anything near as strict as I've heard, it was very brave of him to contact Okasan after she was banished! And it was in part for your sake! You should feel honored!

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milleniumkeeper October 14 2007, 22:58:00 UTC

(ooc: *picked up on the hint* Hey, you know my personal journal Nyami_Rose1? Could you go there and comment on the newest entry? It has nothing to do about what I wrote in my newest entry; it's that I want to give you something and I can't do it here. Also, good job with the LJ-cut! ^_^)*smiles* I'm glad you've sorted this all out. That dream must have made you feel better- I can see it in your face! I know how you feel about your uncle Yugi. I mean, everybody has some one they 'hate'. For me, it was the Pharaoh. For over 5 years I hated him, and in th end it was for something he didn't do. You know the story quite well, so I don't need to get detailed, but I did everything to get revenge, to hurt, to make sure Atem felt how much I hated him ( ... )

gemini_604 October 14 2007, 23:17:51 UTC

"Follow me around?" Boy, I hope so!

Thank you for sharing, Malik. Strange isn't it, how circumstances could change if bad/hurtful decisions weren't made? I'm really glad you and I are friends now. And hey, happy endings are coming for you, too! You got Mariku back and you're getting a better job! ^_^

milleniumkeeper October 14 2007, 23:29:15 UTC

Hmm, yeah. I guess your right. Things have been alright lately- which is a real change since thing always seem to go wrong for me- especially in this city. *glances out the window and sees police officers trying to arrest a group of terrorists that are waving thier guns around while a bomb goes off on the other side of the city*

-_- I love Cairo *sarcasm*

sammytech October 14 2007, 23:33:30 UTC

OMG please be careful.

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fallenangeldoma October 15 2007, 14:44:47 UTC

*cries* That's so sad! *hugs and cries harder*

studmuffinangel October 15 2007, 14:48:32 UTC

Wow. As someone who knows what it's like to be abandoned by family, I know what sort of guilt you're carrying around. I hope you don't feel guilty for much longer, because you don't deserve it. My mother always told me that we only feel guilty for as long as we need to. I think she had also been hinting that this was our punishment for things we did wrong.

Which made me think at the time, 'Just how many cookies can I eat before I feel guilty about it?'

Anyways, I'm talking too much... >.> Get back together soon with your family, and you guys can be there to support each other.

Best wishes and warmest regards,
Raphael