November 2. My five and a half year old daughter was perched on my lap and asked me all the sudden,"Where is lola Abing?"
She's in the cemetery.
"Why is she in the cemetery?"
She has gone to heaven.
"Why is she in heaven?"
I didn't want to say the word died, so...She got real sick and did not get better.
"Why did she get sick?"
Her body got this disease called cancer.
"Why did she get cancer?"
And I was grappling for the right way to explain when my daughter quipped,
""You know what, mama..I think she's in heaven because she is dead." "Yes", she said while nodding her head at me looking all knowing, "she died."
I really had no more words to say.
