{"id":5521,"date":"2017-02-18T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2017-02-23T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:55:00","slug":"2017-more-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2017\/02\/2017-more-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"2017: More Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister came over to cut my hair today. She does that once in a while. While under the electric razor, I made tentative plans for her to come over and dye my hair one month’s hence so that I have no grays. I told her I was again attending the National Conference of Undergraduate Research and, unlike last time, I was going to put forth an effort to not look<\/em> like the oldest student in attendance. “I don’t want to be the senior senior,” I put it succinctly.<\/p>\n

I asked her if she’d heard from our dad or any Floridian relative lately, and she said she hadn’t. “I’m just wondering how Papa’s doing,” I added.<\/p>\n

“I think he’s just the same. Still moving along.”<\/p>\n

“Man, he just keeps going. I thought he was gonna die back in September.”<\/p>\n

“I know, me too. Now it’s getting close to his birthday. He’s gonna be 90.”<\/p>\n

After Diane left, I again commented on my grandfather’s unexpected robustness, and Jennifer asked if I had decided whether I will go to his funeral. I reiterated my general distaste for the Sunshine State. Coupling that with our impending vacation there in December, I’m not sure I can stomach two trips there in a single year. After not stepping foot in Florida for over a decade, I’ve just about recovered. All this would suffice in itself, but then there’s the whole matter of how I’ll be treated – if complete shunning can even be considered “treatment.”<\/p>\n

“I’ll probably just celebrate his life in my own way,” I concluded. For the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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