A death in the family can teach a person a lot about life. My Father died when I was about 7 yrs old. As I've grown up I have realized the many differences there are to growing up without a dad. My mother went to work full time after my father died out of a need to support us so she was gone a lot of the time. I have an older brother who took it …showed first 75 words of 694 total…

…showed last 75 words of 694 total…same problems as my brother and I, and yet they didn't carry them to the extent that we did. Both of them also started college right after high school The lessons we learn from losing loved ones are never easy. The affect of losing a parent can be profound, but it doesn't have to be permanent. As long as we take life as it comes, and try to learn from everything that happens to us