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mikemou
why must you make me cry at work?
americandy
Shit, I wasn't supposed to cry tonight.
LadyRayofCrayCray
Fuck cancer.
Thinkpoohbearthink
What an amazing woman. I hate to see bad things happen to good people. Your son will always have you in his heart.
apage12
This is absolutely beautiful!
iwillmakeyougifs
I really need to stop cutting these onions.
titsmcgeeeisonvacation
http://imgur.com/sUMQc48
EmmaItalia23
My parents were both diagnosed with cancer when I was 13. They both beat it, but last Xmas, my mom gave me the (1/2)
EmmaItalia23
(2/2) hope chest she'd filled with things for me in case she died. Things for me to carry on my wedding day, cards, letters, etc.
KungPowDickenn
WHO PUT THESE ONIONS HERE?!
WTFmoonmoon
Fuck Cancer.
coelacanths
There's a This American Life about a very similar story: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/401/parent-trap
HumbletheGreat
http://imgur.com/YeY8s3v
LukeDeVari
Just brought awareness to how much of an unfeeling bastard I really am...
BinomialLemon
If I were in that dads shoes I'd be dying inside. I love my wife, don't know where I'd be without her. It would break my heart... :'(.
ClingTenaciouslyToMyButtocks
ALoudMeow
Feels enough for any person. Quadruple feels as a father. Why can't I hold all these feels?
dinosaurshatepushups
Denvercoder09
DECLINE...DECLINE...DE...accept....
fluffyismoney
P.S. I love you
vanella
GAHHH that's truly heartbreaking :(
dearintheheadlights
Happy plot twist: her cancer is cured, she lives a long and happy life, and gets to give her son his birthday cards in person. All better.
TryingTraveler
I feel like this stuff proves God doesn't exist and that we and only we are capable of making heaven on earth
RustyCreakySqueaky
I just lost my online friend to cancer but he made a huge difference to my life.
RustyCreakySqueaky
I just lost my online friend to cancer but he made a huge difference to my life.told him that he still had alot to offer. He saved my life.
Homophone
As a mom, and someone who has lost a parent, I am typing through tears. This is beautiful.
calenestel
As a dad in a similiar position... I never connected the two. That hit me like a fucking truck. I'mma go hug the podlings. :(
EvenBetterCool
Fuck. Damn it. Shit. No.
manslut
Are these people British? They look British.
LizBoo
It says 'love Mummy' so ya. Not sure why that matters though.
SiWilliamson
The little boy in the picture went to my girlfriends nursery, lovely family. And yes they are from England!
LittleE92
I think so too. I noticed the key on the 21st B-day card and I know that's a British tradition.
ScaryAssMeadow
It's gonna suck the day he opens what he knows is the last card.
ifinallyhadtocomment
If he makes it that far.
Ineedamorecreativeusernamethanusual
It is sad, but many don't even get this. He is still lucky. Hopefully, by the end, he'll understand the gift he's been given.
Red23
chances are she's made like eighty+ cards.
Gonnaderpya
CRUSHING SADNESS
SAndshrew13
Well she could keep going past 21, right? Right???? ;_;
FelipeRios
You somehow found a way to make this post even sadder
MoarWaffles
my girlfriend's mom did something similar for her before she passed away. Except the last one is for her wedding day.
ScaryAssMeadow
Talk about pressure. You should propose soon then.
MoarWaffles
haha she didn't write it for that purpose
ScaryAssMeadow
Secretly your GF wishes every day she could open that card.
Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik
Hopefully she thought ahead and left some extra unknown cards for his to receive randomly.
Chionati
like weddings. or dads funeral, first child..
karlthatkillspeople
make 150 birthday cards. cards in case of graduation, marriage, celebration. it's like a Hallmark store but cooler
ScaryAssMeadow
No wonder she passed, exhausting herself with making like 200 cards from scratch.
ultimatezeus
thats why you write 150 ?
SirLurksalotOfLurkinghamManor
It will be so bittersweet. But he'll realize that he was blessed by something so amazing, and that he will feel that her job was finished.
StarscreamYouHaveFailedMeForTheLastTime
aaand I cried a little.
MistaSmiles
card #21 says "P.S. I hid a #22
DarkTowerRose
Why did you say that?! I was keeping it together! I really was!
imsofreakintired
Dude, its gonna suck the whole time. Now go hug your mother.
hwarang
Maybe, but if he's followed her advice, he'll be a man. And he'll be okay.
MysteriousBrownie
This managed to make me feel better. Thank you :)
ashmenon
"Son, this is my last wor...d.dd of.. *SCRIBBBLBLBLBE* damn pen is out of ink brb"
BlueGiraffe
Aw what the fuck man. D:
Kopar
Hopefully, he'll have lived a long and healthy life. He'll internalize the wisdom. But I'd hope she'd have made a hundred or more of 'em! :3
keioto
I hope she goes dark and sardonic in his thirties.
TomaCT
deserves more points than the original comment god bless you!
ofcourseidoimaprincessandthisismytiara
I wouldn't want to open it.
delonwheels
I cannot deal with that part of P.S. I Love You.
ifoundyourpantsandkeptthem
Feels.
CaitPlanchette
omg noo no noooooo
AcadianBacon
Why did you make me think of that? ;-; -sniffle-
MybestfriendisBenAffleck
My mom died when i was 11 (23 now) and I can tell you for a fact I would give ANYTHING to receive a birthday card from her.
RNM2009
Lost my mom 10 years ago... I know how it feels. God Bless you...
worldbuilder
I lost my father to cancer when I was 13 (I'm 23 as well), and I don't even have a picture to remember him by. I feel your pain.
RNM2009
So sorry...
WeCouldAllGoPeeTogether
Well little dude, sounds like you have a pretty cool Mom.
TheHappyCanadian
my wife has cancer right now, this hits every feel in the rolodex under "f"
TheHappyCanadian
thanks for the support, she's in remission right now with Adult Wilm's Tumor, one of 20 worldwide cases
TelephoneToughGirl
Cureyourowncancer.org. I'm not trying to be insensitive, just passing along info. Positive thoughts your way.
Adnarime
so fucking misleading.
TheHappyCanadian
thanks, her cancer is in remission, but it's a genetic type that pops up from time to time like a whack-a-mole
ktktktkt
Best of luck to you guys. Not sure if you're religious, but know I'll pray for her <3
blueknot
That's either going to be incredibly precious to him in the future or incredibly painful. :(
ienne
Little of column A, little of column B.
thatget1
My mom died at 49. Finding stuff she's written is sort of a sob and chuckle moment. It's definitely better than not having anything.
FabricatiDiemPvnc
yeah maybe I'm cynical, but I wondered this too. probably will work out fine, as long as dad helps him keep perspective
Degbis
It never gets better, but it hurts less, this will be good.
GoofytheScot
Both i'd imagine. Horrible disease :(
DianNaoChong
Most people learn to dread the cards. This american life did a podcast and the letters become traumatizing and quickly get abandoned.
StitchesAreMyJam
Think that he's young enough that he won't really remember a huge amount about her, so hopefully just a nice thing to open, but sad for dad
skittleyphallus
Likely a combo
vanishplusxzone
I'm gonna say both.
thiscannotpossiblygowrong
Saddest "why not both" ever.
SlavkaBarringer
From experience, I can tell you that it is both.
theairgonaut
There was a story on this american life on a similar subject. It was hard on the daughter, but it was also letters, which is different (1/2)
theairgonaut
Because it was too much like her dead mother was dictating her life in a one sided conversation.
delonwheels
Specific advice is tricky. Maybe a story from each of those years of the parent's life would be better.
theairgonaut
Yeah, although the sentiments in this avoid the whole one-sided conversation part by basically "Be a decent person" as opposed to specifics
wandergeist
It gets complicated: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/401/parent-trap?act=1
whig
As soon as I read the comment that this is replying to, I thought of that This American Life. +1
LOTNorm
Pain is precious to a lifetime in need of connection.
HauntinglyBeautifulStatements
That was quote-worthy
PoppinLochNessHopster
Dude...that's like, deep, man.
thelastpistachio
As someone whose mother died when she was 6, every birthday after was, and will continue to be one where I wish she was there. Fuck cancer.
T0mmyH4wk
I lost my mother a few months after turning 7...14 years later and I can say that you are 100% correct! Fuck cancer.
whatwho
As someone whose mother died when she was 5, I 2nd all of this.
danielsdesk
I lost my mom when I was 25 to cancer, over 4 years ago; I'm with you on the Fuck Cancer train
whatwho
Yep, I seriously effing hate it. Have lost too many to it.
thelastpistachio
Yeah, you never really feel like a complete person again once they're gone. (obligatory: Cancer can suck a bag of dicks.)
ISpilledRedWineAllOverMyInsides
I am now a member of the elite squad known as Feel Team Six
CrapSac
Oh yes... This is what I needed.
GoBlue
sp1cychick3n
Glorious.
KaiserinHelgaVonEinhornDieEinzige
I'm in.
KingBamboo
May I join you?
porrages
Do you have over 300 confirmed feels?
ISpilledRedWineAllOverMyInsides
My feels are over 9000
IDontHaveALongUsernameLikeALotOfOtherImguriansOhWait
He's killed Osama Been Cryin'.
hisendmenudes
I love your username
ISpilledRedWineAllOverMyInsides
To quote Han Solo: "I know."
ThaDeanWinchester
Feel Team Six just raided my secret compound and shot me in the head with FEELS
GodDammitMarieTheyAreMinerals
I'd love to join your squad, however I just joined the Navy Feels
thesharkknight
Feel Team Six is a division of the Navy Feels
rainbowism
Kingmal
No no no, that's the one hundred and feelst battalion.
CaptainDynamite
WHY CAN'T I FAVORITE COMMENTS?!?
Malarky468
Permission to come aboard?
SubzeroAK
Aye, I've come to battle with a tissue box in hand.
nicoc3r
is it the one with the hundred round mag?
MoonbyulBias
Three-ply hundred sheet box. Standard issue.
acme64
the caliber of these tissues is amazing