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him! Jim patiently patted her and cooed to her and kept her company so that my parents could get through the service undistracted. And I have to think that Carmen helped Jim get through a difficult situation, too. But we did have to laugh at the big black dog and the robust man she chose to shower with her affections.

My final story involves my dad again and one of his cohorts and a trip they made to a northern state to pick up a body and transport it back to Arkansas for a funeral. The two men traveled in the company hearse, and sometime in the night, they stopped for gas. My dad was driving and his friend was sleeping in the rear of the hearse. Dad got out spoke to the attendant, who jokingly asked, "Do you have somebody back there?" Assuming he meant a dead body, my dad said, "No," and stepped away to visit the restroom. Meanwhile, the friend awoke and decided to also pay a visit to the restroom before traveling further. He rose up in the back of the hearse, and the attendant nearly jumped out of his skin! I think variations of this incident happened several times over the years, and we always had a good laugh about them.

I would never do or say anything to be disrespectful about funerals or death. It is a sacred, reverent event in my book. But it is also part of the life cycle, and sometimes, funny things happen in the most "un-funny" situations. I like to think that humorous things happening during such a sad situation are God's way of saying, "Hang in there - it's going to be okay - and you CAN laugh again."

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