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I miss my parents and my aunts. I miss my former High Priestess and High Priest. She had a bizarre form of kidney failure, and had to go to dialysis a couple of times a week. Her venous port got infected and fell apart, and she bled to death on the floor of her kitchen while trying to call 911. My High Priest developed a weird form of cancer because of some of the recreational drugs he had used, and he died in a hospital. And a few of my covensibs died of various chronic illnesses. One had a heart attack while walking up the stairs to the apartment where he and his partner lived. Partner had severe gout - his fingers were so gnarled he could barely hold a fork to feed himself.He died of the complications of the condition, a few weeks after his partner had the heart attack. They're making bad puns at each other in the Summerland.

I miss my childhood music teacher, who gave me piano and voice lessons until I went away to college. I miss the French Canadian announcer I worked with at the UN. He died of AIDs.