An uneasy feeling

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On New Year's Day in 2000 , my husband and I decided to take our young family up to the West End to watch the New Year Parade.The family were thoroughly enjoying the festivities, whereas I just couldn't tune in, as I had a very uneasy dragging, empty feeling in the pit of my stomach, that gut feeling, which somehow made my thoughts turn to my father.I told my husband that I had to leave them urgently and go back and check that he was alright, we didn't have mobiles then! On my arrival at his home, I found to my shock he was lying outstretched on the bathroom floor, where he had fallen and was not able to move.Somehow even without an alarm or mobile phone he had managed to communicate his predicament to me, strange indeed, he died in hospital 11 days after.
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