ONE LIFE, TWO WORLDS — AND HOME CAME FIRST. Under the soft chapel lights, no one clapped. No cameras flashed. Just a black-and-white photo, held gently in familiar hands. Hands that once waved from front rows. Now still. In that moment, he wasn’t a voice on the radio or a name on a chart. He was the dad who whistled while fixing things. The man whose laugh filled kitchens, not arenas. Someone said softly, “He belonged to us before the world ever did.” No speech followed. No music. But something eased in the room. Because his greatest role was never on a stage.
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