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Added 2016-11-23 03:16:30 +0000 UTCAs many of you are now aware of, my aunt who was battling AML has passed away. Since I don't have a mother, my aunt took on the role of a mother for me and it has been the roughest time of my life trying to cope with her death. She was always the jokester of the family and made everybody snort laugh and occasionally pee their pants and she always looked at things in a positive light. I started conceptualizing this video and recording a rough draft while she was already in the hospital but before I could actually put on the flowing dress and do my hair and have my roommate record my little tribute to her, my auntie went on life support and I dropped everything in Chicago and went to go stay in the ICU with her and my family for the next weeks until we all gathered around her and took her off life support and watched her draw her last breath. The concept for this video was showcasing the devastation that cancer left for us but trying to find some light in the shitty shitty situation just as she always taught us to. And not to give up hope that she would somehow miraculously pull through. I will not re-record this. It just is what it is. Me, in some random clothes, looking frumpy. But that's how I always looked when I was around her so in retrospect who cares about to pretty dress and perfect hair. She was never one to care about perfection anyway. She will never see this now. It still doesn't feel real. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zylbxjacx1tgu8/Video%20Nov%2022%2C%2020%2022%2000.mp4?dl=0
