{"id":1094,"date":"2009-08-22T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/08\/going-on.html"},"modified":"2009-08-22T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T19:27:22","slug":"going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/08\/going-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and children are finally with me now, after two long weeks apart. And tomorrow we say goodbye to my father, formally, for good. And then life will go on. I will continue to struggle through the work of dealing with his affairs &#8211; which is immense, but also good, in a way,&nbsp;it&nbsp;being the&nbsp;last and possibly most important thing that I do for him &#8211; and so this story will not end here, but it will change. <\/p>\n<p>Because, as I said, life will go on. <em>Life<\/em> will go on.<\/p>\n<p>Which is probably the biggest lesson that death teaches you, and I will hold in my mind and heart tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Life goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and children are finally with me now, after two long weeks apart. And tomorrow we say goodbye to my father, formally, for good. And then life will go on. 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