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Sunday, February 13th, Rob's dad, Mimi and Ozzy's grandfather, PoongHo "Paul" Im, passed away quietly in our home.  He was attended that night by Rob; though Rob, his brother Bryan, their uncle who flew out from Korea to be with dad in his final days (the No.5 brother as he was called since dad came from a family of 7 sons of which he was the No. 1 son), and Rob's mom, took turns being with him night and day and had been doing so for three weeks since we learned of his illness. i wanted to write an account of these events in our family blog to remember what happened, as best as i am able to recall and to memorialize dad.  these past three weeks have begun to blur together, the details and days blending into fuzzy color in my mind.  hopefully the details will come to me as i write. that he had cancer, that they found tumors, that they didnt expect he would make it beyond a few weeks, came as a complete shock. they thought it was lung cancer.  it made me sit ri...