My Pappy Dying

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Rodney Sachs My greatest fear is death or my old man dying because my daddy is my role model. He is a leader to me because he makes my family happy and he loves us all so much. He also helps me make good decisions in and out of school. Sometimes after I watch war movies it gets me assuming about if this happened to him. I have a friend and his pa is overseas and I always tell him how brave he is because I could never do that. For example, imagination runs wild when my dad is out of town. My parent is in Arizona for a work meeting and every night I hope that he is ok. According to google my fear is scientifically called thanatophobia. Another reason I am scared of my pappy dying is because when I was little my great grandmother died. Just

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