Your parents . . . they were crematedcorrect

Yes.

Were they interred

Yes.                                                                                                         

 

Yes

        You uncomfortable talking about this

Depends. 

           What are you driving at?

Im not driving  Im asking

                           Asking because I have a sense theyre nearby an youve not mentioned visiting them since Id guess  they were interred

he shifted his stance

It isnt my intention to make you uncomfortable We can change the subject if you rather Im curious is all 

 

I don’t visit because they’re not there.

Their mortal remains ar . .

. . I don’t have to visit their  mortal  remains . . to remember them.

No  Yadon

            The cemetery throws you off 

he stood boltupright

                     Throws me off? How do you mean throws me off?

Makes you uncomfortable

Uncomfortable?  Why would I be?

Because people donusually do things theyre uncomfortable doing

                                                                     Your mothers been dead fifteensixteen years whichif Im correct means you visited her last when you interred your father Wha its been three years

Yes. Three years.

Is there a family plot

he turned his head to a side like a perplexed bird

                                                    Family plot?

Other crypts for family members

Crypts? No.  No.

                   They chose to lay there.

Do you think they laythat they chose crypts because they thought family would visit

his countenance hardened I don’t know what they thought.

Awright  Cant assume I understand

                                          Your Dad visited your Mom

Yes, he did.

Is it likely because he did because from what youve said he understood he was influential particularly for you that he might have thought youyour siblings would visit his grave site your Moms

Your sisters visit

They do.

Yadon

   he slumped his spine give way a bit  

Why donya

he cleared his throat As I said . . they’re not there.

No  Theyre not

                 However their graves are touchstonesaffirmations They were here They are memorialised 

Visiting them would be a genuine acknowledgment of what they meant to youthat they provided for you and your siblings

he shook his head

                    What’s this about? You trying to guilt me?

No guilt  Its about being human  an recognising your mortality

                                                                   I understand that aside from your immediate family you grewup with few other family I grewup surrounded by family dozens of aunts and uncles sixtysix first cousins  couldnt toss a stone without hitting one 

Ill be cremated though not contained Then ifyawill part of their atmosphere my girls can take comfort Im about he chuckled Aroundanabout

Yet you interred your wife’s ashes in her mother’s grave.

Yes we did

             Since the day her mother died Cindi desperately missed her The girls and I decided that laying her with her motherthem being together would be comfortingwould be right

Comforted in death

A sentiment that eludes you

Yes.  I suppose to each his own.

 

Yes

     Yare missing out  Yare choosing not to celebrate life

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