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2 days before last Halloween my mother passed away, we live about 4 hrs from her and it happened shortly after supper. After packing the kids and wife up I finally decided, or realized, that there was no rush for me to drive that night, it wouldn't change anything and I couldn't help her, so we went to bed and planned to leave in the morning.
About 1 AM that night I heard the worst crying I ever heard in my life, which soon turned to screaming. I live in a town with less then 2,000 people so it was quite unusual.
My neighbor (whom I didn't know) had went to check on her 1 yr old and found her dead, she walked out of the house (mortified obviously) and sat right under my bedroom window, screaming her childs name until the Police/Ambulance arrived about 15 minutes later.
I was devastated and still in shock from hearing about my mother just a few hours earlier but I'll never forget how her pain made mine feel like it was nothing but a paper cut.
I would trade anything to make that day not happen for either one of us.
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