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This is very true I lived it

 

Fate dealt me a very bad hand, when my mom died when I was only eight
I learned how to grow up early, to help with preparations, to put my mom away
My dad we couldn't find, over seas, in the navy, we just couldn't find him, this broke my heart, I thought my parents were soul mates
My maternal grandmother left sanity for awhile, she was so grief stricken, she raised me after my mom's death, but when she died, my grandmother from reality, just went away.
 
A friend of the family and I, choose everything to ensure my mom had a decent funeral
My mom had two brothers and one sister, and they were really never very close
They lived all across the U.S., so it was up to me, with help I made sure within the funeral to cover every detail
I wanted to put my mom away as nice as I could, about this somber fact, I do not want to boast.
 
The night before the funeral, my aunt choose to stay in my room with me
Just like my mom, I never liked my aunt
I know my mom used to tell me, how she and my aunt had taken sibling rivalry to a different plane, they did not get along at all, my mom didn't want my aunt around me
My mom and her sister, to get along, they never did, my mom would tell me, how much she disliked my aunt.
 
Having an extra bed in my room, my aunt decided that she would sleep here
But that would end up being a mistake, one she would remember to the day she died
At only eight my opinion, didn't matter much, I did not want her in my room, from her I wanted to steer clear
I didn't like her, her presence I did not want to abide.
 
I wasn't the only one that felt this way, soon my aunt would learn
Soon we were startled by an unusual knocking from the walls
A rocking chair at the end of my bed, started to rock on it's own, to my aunt this became a matter of concern
This scared my aunt, she left my room, but I knew it was my mom, she hadn't wanted my aunt around me at all.
 
After she left, all the unexplainable activities, they just totally stopped and went away
Seems my mom got her message across, even from the realm of the dead
I was never scared as I knew my mom would never hurt me, but my aunt in the matter, she didn't have a say
My mom, on that night made her wishes very clear, my aunt understood, after everything done, everything said.