Lost my dad after 10 year cancer battle

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I lost my dad almost 6 months ago, after his 10-year battle with cancer. I’m 24, and no one around me has dealt with grief in the same capacity, so no one really understands all the loss I’m feeling. I’m an only child so it’s just me and my mum now, and I feel like a part of me is missing.
I was so close to my dad, he was the most incredible, selfless and joyous man I’ve ever met.
For most of my cognisant life, I’d been expecting my dad to die, but as he kept beating it, I guess I had this hope that it would never truly get him. When the cancer came back and had spread everywhere, a part of me knew it was the last time, and yet I still felt so underprepared for his death, and for the changes in his personality as he realised he was dying. I’m so lost for how to move forward, so I’ve just been burying myself in work to distract myself from thinking about it.

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