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so on thursday i got some great news, and some terrible news. i was sitting at the train station waiting for my train to come and i called mom to check in. my uncle was diagnosed with multiple myeloma last january. this is basically a cancer of the blood. it can never be cured, but it can go into remission. when i last saw unky in april, it seemed like he had lost some weight, but otherwise he was still himself. unfortunately, when i saw him this past week, the situation had completely changed. he was weak, had lost a ton of weight, and when i hugged him, he felt lik skin and bones. on top of that, mentally, he just wasnt the same. this brings me to thursday morning. i was sitting at the station, when mom told me that they had decided to stop fighting and that he only has a couple weeks, if that to live. so there i am, crying at the train station, feeling so many things its impossible to explain. when mom and i moved to sd from la in 1990, he was my father figure. we had dinner with both my uncle and aunt every sunday; he taught me how to throw a ball as well as how to kick a soccer ball; he helped me build everything from the solar system to a mission to a medieval castle to my history day projects; he was an integral part of my childhood. so now i am back in dc, and i literally just got the news that he passed away in the middle of writing this all out. i came back yesterday and he died today. why. all i can ask is why.
i had more to write, but now im not in any mood to.

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