My dad’s life insurance completely changed my life, and when I saw the impact it made I immediately bought a policy of my own
December 18, 2019 by Kelly McClure
On Halloween morning 2013, I received the first in a series of three calls that would change my life forever. It was early, around 7 AM, and receiving calls from family members at that hour is never good news, unless it’s your birthday. This wasn’t my birthday. This was the morning I found out my mom had died.
I had missed the call, but when I checked my phone and saw a voicemail from the contact entry labeled Mom & Dad, my stomach dropped. My body could feel the news I was about to learn, well before I returned that call.
Delaying the switch from living a life that included a mom to one without for a bit longer, I went into the kitchen to smoke a cigarette before calling my dad back. Five minutes later, I’d hear that she’d died from heart failure, primarily caused by being a life-long smoker. And yet still, I didn’t regret that cigarette one bit.
I had spent the time it took to inhale it thinking about her, and how my small family was about to be so much smaller. That voicemail was saved in my phone for four years, until Mom & Dad wasn’t an applicable entry in my contacts anymore.
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