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George Kelly Coleman Junior

IT SEEMS THAT YOU CAN BE CLOSE BUT YET SO FAR WHEN YOU RESIDE IN THE SAME TOWN, WITHIN REACH WITH A CAR OUR PARENTS KEPT IN TOUCH AND WOULD USUALLY COME ON THE WEEKEND BECAUSE BIG MAMA CORA TAUGHT THEM TO LOOK OUT FOR YOUR KIN WHEN ALL HAD COMPLETED THEIR COLLEGE OR JOB SKILLS FOR A CAREER THEY WOULD JOIN OR MOVE TOGETHER FOR ONE OF THEM TO BE NEAR IT WAS TO LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER AND KEEP A FAMILY CONNECTION NOT A FACTOR OF FEAR, A LIFESAVER, A BACKUP, ADDITIONAL PROTECTION TOGETHER WE WERE COUSINS, SHARED OUR GREAT AND GRAND MOTHERS WITH THAT COMBINATION OF NELSON-COLEMAN FROM TWO BROTHERS I DID NOT KNOW WHAT I COULD DO OR SAY BECAUSE IT DID NOT SEEM REAL EVERY TIME I THOUGH JUNIOR IS GONE, IT WAS PAINFUL TO FEEL I REMEMBER HIS WISDOM, WHEN I CAME TO HIM FOR A TALK OR SMILE HE ALWAYS MADE SOME TIME AND LISTENED FOR A WHILE AS I THINK OF ALL THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD, I WILL MISS HE SHOWED OUR FAMILY, KNOWLEDGE, STRENGTH AND HOW TO TAKE RISK TEARS FALL FROM MY EYES, JUST SITTING AND THINKING OF HIS LIFE HIS HARD WORK, HIS FAMILY, HIS OFFSPRING AND HIS SHINING LIGHT FROM YOU CUZ MATTIE RENE’ WITH LOVE FOREVER TO OUR JUNIOR GK

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