On April 20th, 2012, during my freshman year of high school, my dad unexpectedly passed away. He fell off the roof of a five-story bank in Philadelphia while he was replacing some skylights. While I knew my dad’s work was dangerous, I never thought that he would die so suddenly. I thought I experienced shock when my parents divorced, and again when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, but nothing compares to the trauma and pain of death. However,...

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