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Hi. My names Allie. I died a few years ago from cancer, but I still spend time with my family, just now they don't know I'm there. I used to be angry I was dead, I wondered endlessly about why it happened to me. Now that some has passed i am beginning to accept it. Yea I'm lonely but I can't worry about myself all the time.I miss my family. I really do. I remember the day I died Holden went home from the hospital crying hysterically and he punched a hole right through the garage window and then he had to go to the hospital. He cried the whole way there, mom and dad didn’t know what to do- this wasn’t like Holden. Holden liked to act strong and tough in front of me, even though knew he wasn’t really. When I was alive I think I saw him cry twice, but now it's much more often than that. He couldn’t be at my funeral and I knew that made him sad as hell, and it made me sad. Imagine your own brother not being at your funeral, it was terrible. …show more content…
D.B came to the funeral and tried to hold back tears as he embraced mom and dad for the first time in months. Mom and Dad were devastated all right, old Phoebe wouldn't take that pillow off her face and didn’t even go to the park to skate for weeks because she said she didn’t want to go without me. I saw her take my skate key the day i died. She went into my room, to my desk and pulled out the small old rusty key, held it close to her face for a second, tears running down her face and gently put it hand and walked out. My mom cried herself to sleep that night. Her pillow wet from tears as she drifted off into a short sleep only to be awaken by the thought of me not

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