Dolly Ogawa-Amsk

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“A Funeral To Remember” by Dolly Ogawa-Amsk

Submitted to Contest #57

We thought we were early but the church was filling up and we were lucky to find a space in one of the back pews. After my last conversation with Junior I shouldn’t have been surprised at the size of the crowd. When I was in high school, my family lived one house away from the Hopewell’s. The thing was we all knew that Junior was dying. He was born with a faulty kidney, in a time before transplants. So, he knew from the beginning that he wasn’t expected to survive much past his eighteenth birthday. It made it hard for his mother to...

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