I Feel Sad That My Mom Died Of Breast Cancer

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I feel sad that my mom died of breast cancer
and I will never see her again.
A lot of my friends' parents like Frankie's are divorced.
It is pretty bad when your parents get divorced
but it is not as bad when your parents get divorced
as when your mom dies of breast cancer.
When your parents get divorced
only one lives with you,
but you can still see the other parent on weekends.
When your mom is dead,
it is different.
You don't live with her anymore,
but you also can't see her on weekends,
you won't see her ever again.
You have to carry her around inside of you forever.
I remember when mom was still alive
and my mom and dad would argue sometimes
and she would yell for a while
and then my dad would yell for a while
and after a while my dad would usually agree with her
and then admit she was right.
That would be the end of it.
Even then I knew my mom and dad would never get divorced
and always be together.
They would love each other their whole life long,
unlike Frankie's parents.
But then one day my mom got breast cancer.
For a while she got better
and then for a while she got worse.
Then she got better
and then she got worse again.
I guess I thought she would always get better and worse,
better and worse again.
It would go on like that,
which would be bad but not that bad.
I thought we would always live together,
even if we would have to live somehow with the cancer.
But then one day she got worse
and then she got much worse
and then she got much much, much worse
and then she went to the hospital
and then one day she died.
My dad told me
when I came home that March day
from Frankie's.
I feel sad that my mom is gone—
gone not just for a while, but forever.
Frankie must feel sad, too,
that his parents got divorced,
but he knows he can still see his father,
though they are divorced,
on weekends.