the fact that he was my only immediate nuclear family member, keeps the wound alive, fresh and hemorrhaging.
Call it being tough or whatever you would describe it for 15 years away in SA without family close by, we only kept in touch over the phone. Now that I am back home, I shed tears when they visit me and go back to their places, I am discovering that family means a lot to me Jose.
I can only imagine the pain you are going through now, to think of your only sibling is no more. One thing I have also believed especially now that I am home is that our loved departed ones are with us, watching over us, I strongly feel that about my late mom.