How I broke the news of my father's death to my children.

"You know that Papa has been getting old and sickly right?"

They didn't acknowledge it. They were just astounded. So I continued:

"He fell sick last weekend and didn't make it. He passed on, on Wednesday." I paused for a moment to let it sink in, then nodded and added, "yeah, we lost Papa."

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