my uncle phoned me yesterday to let me know that they're not driving down to NYC anymore in July, instead they will be taking a tour bus ... (my best Swirsky impression) Are you kidding me?! ... Tourbus?!, What are we, Japanese businessmen? ... He asked me if I still wanted to go ... my response, I'm not going to NYC and have someone else dictate what I do and when I do it ... I guess on to Plan B ... maybe I can bump up my Miami plans?, and go just for a weekend, Thursday to Sunday ... or maybe I can move up my trip to Jersey to hang out with my cousins ... we shall see ...
Speaking of Jersey, my aunt and uncle left this morning ... but last night we were doing a lot of catching up ... I just found out that one of their nieces, I guess I can consider her a distant cousin, died from leukemia last September, at the age of 5 ... man-oh-man ... I never got the chance to meet her ... apparently she had been symptomatic for 2 months prior to her diagnosis ... doctors were surprised that she survived that long untreated ... however, these were the same doctors that didn't even bother giving her a blood test when she initially came in for a check-up a month and a half earlier ... the survival rate for her form of cancer was 80-20 ... but I'm sure those chances decreased rapidly with the delayed diagnosis ... My aunt described her as a "vibrant little girl" ... I wish I could've met her ... it's just so sad to see how life can just be snuffed out like that ...
I did meet her older sister though back in '01, she was six back then, a really sweet child ... On a lighter note, I asked my aunt how she's doing ... she said that she's really smart and becoming a real teenager ... now she's got a $150 cellular phone and last month's bill topped $200, mostly from text messaging ... man-oh-man does time fly ... just yesterday she was a just a little girl that I laughed and joked with, now in what seems like an instant, she's a young adult with a more expensive cell phone than me ... before I know it, I'll have a family of my own ... but I plan to stretch out my bachelor life as long as possible ...
One,
- J -
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