Dia de los muertos
The loved one that I lost was my Aunt Brandi Jocelyn Brice. Brandi wasn’t my real aunt but she was like my aunt because she was my mom’s best friend which is why I was always around her. I choose to make my skull and mask of my aunt because she meant a lot to me and she taught me a lot of things. My sugar skull represents my aunt because her favorite colors were Christmas colors. Brandi died of lung cancer. She died on Thursday, October 16th 2014. She was born in New York on Sunday,July 10th,1977 in New York. She moved to Philadelphia to attend Temple University. After she atteneded Temple University she went to work at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, which is where she meet my mom. Her hobbies included volleyball field hockey and softball. Brandi was an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association where she served as Chair of the Association''s Board of Governors and the Audit and Elections Committees. Brandi authored articles for Upon Further Review, the Association''s substantive legal journal, and served on the Board of Judges for the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pursuit of Justice Legal Writing Competition. She co-chaired the Government and Public Service Lawyers Committee and served as a panel member for the 2009 Chancellor''s Summit on Diversity and Inclusion. Brandi was an investigator for the Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention and served as a member of the Commission.In the final stages of her treatment, Brandi was actively planning to pursue her passion for the culinary arts. Brandi was the perfect type of person. She always had a way with people. She loved being around kids and she even held sleepovers with all her nieces.Brandi had a really good relationship with her mother and when her mother died she mentioned that she felt like she lost a piece of her. Brandi loves to share memories and she even showed me pictures of her mother. One memory I have with her and my mom is when we all went to walk around the ciyy for a breast cancer walk. The city was really great but it ended on a bad note because I lost her broach that her mother gave her that was passed down her family for 10 years. Brandi’s death was a shock to me because I never knew that she had cancer. Finding out last year that she had cancer was a big deal to me because I found out 1 month before she left the earth. This affected me because my mom thought that she would live. One thing that I loved about Brandi was her long thick hair. Her hair was the only thing that she let affect her because she felt like it gave her beauty. This made me feel really bad because I didn’t know how to comfort her because she would cry as her hair fell out and there was nothing I could do because it just fell out with treatment. Brandi is predeceased by her mother, Carolyn B. Sims Glover. Brandi is survived by a host of loving and supportive family and friends.I know that people die and I know that this is how the world goes. Sometimes I just wonder why it had to be her. I feel like she would’ve had a really great life. I really feel like she was a great person.Knowing that She died makes me feel sad sometimes but I know I have to live my own life and move on for her.
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