Dad

Missi Smith
10 min readOct 16, 2022

This is adapted from the eulogy I gave for my father and may contain references to U2 songs.

Most of what is good about me comes from my father. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2019.

That year I was living abroad. I woke up one weekend morning in March and went about my normal morning routine. In the middle of getting ready to leave the house, I received a video call from my cousin that my father passed away.

I was dumbfounded.

Immediately, I called my elder brother, and he confirmed the devastating news. I began to plan my trek across the…

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