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Richard E. Bloom
August 18, 1928 - August 9, 2000
This is my dad. He passed away very unexpectedly this summer. We had no warning really that anything was wrong. He lived in Florida which is 1700 miles away, and by the time we found out he was really sick, it was too late to see him...he died less than 12 hours after we heard he was in the hospital. Its very hard to lose a parent, especially like that when you don't have a chance to say the things you've always felt but never had the courage to say. I don't come from a very demonstrative family, and as embarrassed as I might have been to show my true feelings to my dad, I think he might have been even more embarrassed, so I don't even remember when was the last time I actually told him I loved him. I just hope that he knew it, as I knew he loved me. He was a great man. He took care of his family, he loved us and his wife and his brothers and sports and Bingo, and even though he didn't have the easiest life, he was able to enjoy those simple things. He found peace and happiness the last several years in Florida and became a much more relaxed and jovial man than he had been while my sisters and I were growing up. I find so much comfort now in knowing that he had that time to really enjoy his life. I miss my dad. I think about him every day, and hope that he is thinking about me, and I hope he knows how much I love him.
