Soldato
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My dad died in 1999 of a heart attack when I was 19. 10 years prior he suffered his first heart attack and was medically retired from the MOD.
He was born in 1931, so was a kid during the war, for full reasons unknown to me he was raised by his gran. For 40 years he kept a daily diary, we have them all to this day in air proof containers.
My sister and I started reading his diaries, eventually, we stumbled across an entry about 3 weeks before his first heart attack in 1989, he wrote that he had a weird dream, he dreamt that he's gran had approached him and stated "No, not ready for you yet" - low and behold he had a heart attack and survived.
You can guess where this is going, in the weeks before he died, another entry reporting another wearied dream, this time his gran was ready for him - and he died this time aged 67.
He was born in 1931, so was a kid during the war, for full reasons unknown to me he was raised by his gran. For 40 years he kept a daily diary, we have them all to this day in air proof containers.
My sister and I started reading his diaries, eventually, we stumbled across an entry about 3 weeks before his first heart attack in 1989, he wrote that he had a weird dream, he dreamt that he's gran had approached him and stated "No, not ready for you yet" - low and behold he had a heart attack and survived.
You can guess where this is going, in the weeks before he died, another entry reporting another wearied dream, this time his gran was ready for him - and he died this time aged 67.