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Last week was undoubtedly one of the most difficult in many of our lives.
From the beautiful and talented Farrah Fawcett, to the Musical legend Micheal Jackson.. Both passed (as most if not all of us know) on Friday, June 25, 2009.

Though there are two people that I would like to highlight. One, would be a man who spent his life in th spotlight. Someone who helped put people's ideas and inventions in the market, Billy Mays. June 28 2009

The second person I would like to highlight, represents something that all of us have felt. On Sunday, my friends uncle who lived in Venezuela died. He had been taken to a clinic, rather than a hospital by his daughter, where he died due to the lack of proper equipment, among other factors. My friend told me that he did not know his uncle well, but he remembers the times that he had spent with him, fondly..
The sad thing is... How well did you know the people who died in your family? I remember small tidbits of my great grandmother, and my grandfather, my cousin I had more, my uncle through my cousin.
But at my their funerals? I couldn't cry. I couldn't cry from their memories, but from the reaction of my family.. That hurt...
I've always said it was the shock, but yesterday I realized that it was partial anger. It was partial nostalgia (thinking about their lives and how they had been a part of theirs.), and the beginning of "getting over it" and wiping up the tears to go to school the next day...