This happened a couple of years ago… It’s sad, but that’s life…

I was traveling with my father and he started to feel sick. He stopped his car at a restaurant to wait to see if he would feel better, but he didn’t… We went to the hospital and he died.

At this time I had been married for almost one year. My life was so happy; my husband and I were in love. But my world was so dark because I lost an important person in my life. My father was my friend, my teacher, and my love. When I lost him I lost a lot of fun. He was a happy person and talkative; we were very close. He taught me how to dance and I loved dancing with him.

It’s so sad when you lose a person who is so good in your life. You feel so alone when this happens and there is nothing you can do to release your pain and your feelings. Only God can help you with His love.

At this time I was feeling very alone, sad, and lost about my life without him. I thought I would die too, but my husband and my family started to pray a lot. God made us happy and we smiled again.

Sometimes when I start to think about his death I feel so sad and I still cry a lot. I still feel bad about losing a person who I loved the most in all my life. But I still have my mother, thank God; who is my big love forever and I will always help her.

I’m sure I’ll never forget him and I will love him for all my life.

Simoni Cury is an intermediate ESOL student at the Framingham Adult ESL Program.