Papa Dennis' Wake and Funeral

November 2008, Part 2

It has taken me this long to upload these photos. Somehow, it all seemed so unreal, and I put off their posting to make the memory easier to dismiss. I thought that living away for the past years allowed me a measure of detachment. But the past eight months has been a slow process of acceptance, healing and realization.

May this album be a closure of sorts, for myself, my sisters and those who said goodbye to Papa last November. In retrospect, it turned out to be a despedida party. He was off to a better place, and must have been smiling down at all of us.