Wake up around 6, get dressed, out of the house by 6:30, stop for
breakfast, coffee at Dunkin Donuts via the drivethrough, get to SI around
7:45, I get a new tie, there’s some confusion about us missing the
funeral, drive to Matthew funeral home, parking drama, we get there super
early and find out we haven’t missed a thing, see Auntie Nene and other
members of the family/coast guard family, pay our last respects to Uncle
Rey, get in someone elses funeral procession, drive back to the
funeral home and follow the right procession (someone else gets lost, too),
mass for Uncle Ray, processional to the grave yard, taps, prayer, burial,
we were handed flowers that your family gave, lunch at DelMundo (bread,
frozen butter, coke, diet coke, tap water, more bread, salad, pasta,
chicken, fish or veal, so full, everyone leaves before coffee and desert. back to
my parents house, bathroom break, we chat, you fix the answering machine,
we drive back, shop at Wegmans, relax, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

My Uncle Rey

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