A small Treasure Found Again
One day in the not so distant past I was sitting on the recliner, which has seen better days, in my apartment just flipping through the TV channels. My mom could not figure out what she wanted to watch and neither could I. So, I picked a movie for her and then my phone beeped with some Facebook notifications. I looked as I usually do when I can and one of my uncles had written on my wall. He asked how everyone was. I told him as good as we get and thought that was the end of it, which with him it usually is, he is a man of little words. But, he replied that his sister whom I hadn't seen in 40 years was in the hospital. I was not too surprised because as people age things just go wrong sometimes as in my mom's case and his sister is not exactly as old as my mom but I would say about 15 years younger which would make her late 60's like my uncle who is going to be 70 this year. He didn't say much else.
So, I was determined to know what had happened to her and all the rest of the family I hadn't seen in over 30 years. I went to his page and saw not my aunt, but her daughter, my cousin on his page and I wrote to her and told her who I was and heard about her mom. She filled me in on what was what and caught me up on the last 30 plus years of her life and then she told me that she had a picture of my dad. She had gotten it from a box of old pictures that one of my aunts had. I don't have any pictures of my dad. The few I had were lost when we moved. So, I was beyond happy to hear that she had a picture of him. She said it was a picture of him with his military air force uniform on and he was standing by an airplane, It was a picture I had never seen before but heard about it from the aunt that passed away. My aunt, the one that passed away, was supposed to show the picture to me but we lost contact over the years and I never got to see it until now. My cousin took a picture of the picture and she sent it to me via Facebook. I downloaded it to the computer and will have it printed out soon.
It was like seeing him again after all these years. I can't describe the feeling but it was for me similar to the feeling I had when I saw my son for the first time after he was born.
My cousin said that if she can, that is totally dependent on my aunt who passed away daughter, she will look through the box again, we both know that it may never happen, but we are trying to keep hope alive and we are hoping that we can find or at least look at more family pictures and treasures.
But, for now I will treasure the picture of my dad.
So, I was determined to know what had happened to her and all the rest of the family I hadn't seen in over 30 years. I went to his page and saw not my aunt, but her daughter, my cousin on his page and I wrote to her and told her who I was and heard about her mom. She filled me in on what was what and caught me up on the last 30 plus years of her life and then she told me that she had a picture of my dad. She had gotten it from a box of old pictures that one of my aunts had. I don't have any pictures of my dad. The few I had were lost when we moved. So, I was beyond happy to hear that she had a picture of him. She said it was a picture of him with his military air force uniform on and he was standing by an airplane, It was a picture I had never seen before but heard about it from the aunt that passed away. My aunt, the one that passed away, was supposed to show the picture to me but we lost contact over the years and I never got to see it until now. My cousin took a picture of the picture and she sent it to me via Facebook. I downloaded it to the computer and will have it printed out soon.
It was like seeing him again after all these years. I can't describe the feeling but it was for me similar to the feeling I had when I saw my son for the first time after he was born.
My cousin said that if she can, that is totally dependent on my aunt who passed away daughter, she will look through the box again, we both know that it may never happen, but we are trying to keep hope alive and we are hoping that we can find or at least look at more family pictures and treasures.
But, for now I will treasure the picture of my dad.
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