Saying Goodbye To Uncle Joe

When someone you love dies, you might feel sad, lonely and confused. What do you do? No matter who your loved one was, this story can help you through the tough times.

When someone you love dies, you might feel sad, lonely, and confused. What do you do? No matter who your loved one was, this story can help you through the tough times.

In this volume, Alice Crosetto and Rajinder Garcha identify hundreds of resources-including books, Internet sites, and media titles-that will help educators, professionals, parents, siblings, guardians, and students learn about coping with the loss of a loved one and the grief...

The primary purpose of this project has been to leave a description of middle-class American life as experienced during the second quarter of the 20th century to those in my kinship system who were born decades later. This collection of autobiographical vignettes --for which I plead guilty of enhancing with fictitious dialogue in order to craft a story --provides a literary context for reconstructing the actual events, only segments of which are sequestered in memory. In other words, I am determined that in so doing I am involved as much in explanation as I am in entertaining. I am acutely aware of the fact that in this memoir a greater emphasis has been given to my pre-teen years. This imbalance was provoked by sage counsel to restrict the size of this book. Hence, a number of stories emerging from experiences occurring, and/or endured, throughout my high school and college years --indeed, a number sufficient for more than another book --were pulled from the manuscript, but not deleted from my computer. The dialogue in each story admittedly involves some fabrication. But the persons, the places, and the various features of each historical context are actual and true. Given my subsequent understanding of the personalities of those principally involved in each story, in crafting the scenarios I have not hesitated to propose what I believe might have been an approximation of what may well have been the actual dialogue. Ergo, although each story is not absolutely authentic from beginning to end, with respect to the centering experience in each case, YES, It ALL Actually HAPPENED! B.C.B.

Juan Manuel Flores Jr. had served thirteen years in the Army and was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, when he met Cynthia on Myspace. She was a beautiful woman from his hometown, Corpus Christi, Texas, and like him, she'd suffered through a bad first marriage. Meeting seemed to be God's way of helping two beautiful people who deserved happiness. The two were married March 21, 2009, Cynthia became sick with the flu in the winter. After being referred to a lung specialist, she was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. ynthia would need chemotherapy and be forced to resign from her job, and Flores struggled to be a good dad to their kids while being there for his wife. Through it all-up until the end of her life-Cynthia tried to do things herself and kept a positive attitude. Flores celebrates their love and raises awareness about a horrible disease in Starting Over Just to Stay Goodbye.

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When a pet dies, it can feel like you lost your best friend. What do you do? Whether you had a guinea pig, dog, cat or fish, this story can help you through the tough times.