{"id":599,"date":"2025-06-25T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindeelou.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:47:29","slug":"life-is-odd-to-say-the-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cindeelou.com\/blog\/life-is-odd-to-say-the-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is odd&#8230;to say the least!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>51 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n<p>The world seems really empty when you used to be a group of 5 siblings and now you are the only one left. I am not in the season of life where you would expect my siblings to be gone already. Odd illnesses took all four of them, three of them in 2017, that was a rough year! Then in 2019 the last one died. 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