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Tim Dowling: can I keep it together at my father’s funeral? No chance
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I want to keep my emotions in check until after my eulogy – but events are conspiring against me. Avoiding looking at the fire truck helps though
On the morning of my father’s memorial service my brother reads me his eulogy, for practice.
“Yeah, it’s good,” I say. I don’t read him mine, because I don’t know how many recitations I have in me. What if it’s just one?
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