Heaven is as Far as a Balloon Will Go: Why Does Family Closeness Matters?

By Alexis DeCicca

As kids, my older brother, Johnnie, and twin sister, Paige and I would get balloons after our visit. Instead of keeping them, we would ask our mom if we could send our balloons up to Heaven for our grandmothers on our mom's side and dad's. I would let go of my green balloon, Paige would let go of her blue balloon, and Johnnie would let go of h

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alexis DeCicca
• Release date: May 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088203200

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Heaven Is as Far as a Balloon Will Go:

Why Does Family

Closeness Matters?

Table of Contents

Dedication………………………………….…….1

You Don’t Know What You Have Until It’s Gone...............................................2

Time Goes By, But I Still Miss You Just As Much………………………………………………6

Time Goes By Like Time of Beauty….7

How Fast Time Goes……..…………………8

How to Mourn The Death Relative…...9

My Aunt Bertie’s Monologue………......10

High School Graduation…….……….……19

Gramma Anne………………………………….20

Welcome to Prescott…………………………23

Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic……………..24

Preface…………………………………………………25

Seeing Through My Deceased Gramma’s Eyes And Survived By Papa’s…………………………………………………...27

Remembering My Gramma but Also Living Family Members:

Childhood Memories:…………………………..29

I AM: A Twin Sister, Daughter, and Friend……………………………………………..…...36

Sneaky One: My Mom’s Instincts……….…38

My Brother Moving Out:

How Our Closeness Grows Every Year…. 43

Dedication

To my Gramma who has passed and my surviving Papa who gives me the courage to keep going even though it was difficult.  My Gramma loved me and Papa loves me even if I mess up and she encouraged me and Papa does now to keep trying until I achieve my dreams.

4-30-09

You Don’t Know What You Have Until It’s Gone

Arguing, messing around, annoyed,

Telling what not to do,

Happy and sad, sometimes mad.

Seeing I Love Lucy specials,

With the one you know

The most that’s on this Earth.

Sitting there wondering, I