Death in Threes? (continued from Katsho's post)

When I read that post my eyes started to water. The father of my twins had just left for college the year before (in 2002 of August) and he had made two visits back to his hometowns for funerals by the end of September! His best friend's cousin and his grandfather. After that, he always mumbled "Death comes in threes,) and he was scared to see who it would be next. He told me how the first time, it's usually a person that you know enough that if they die, it would shock you. And that the second and third time, it's someone who's close to you. I don't know about all that, because I've seen people die in threes and they weren't related and I didn't know them well.

To make a long story short, I had gotten pregnant with twins at the end of 2002 and they were born 3 months premature. My younger twin (conceived 2 days apart) died 2 days after she was born. Later on that day, he (the father) was telling me how on the day the twins were born and taken to the NICU, his cousin said "you know deaths come in threes, right?" And he said OH NO.

If this death thing is true, I hope I don't lose another person that's close to me. I lost a baby and her funeral was the first and only funeral that I cried at. I don't want to face it again. My baby girl was the only death that really affected me. What now? Am I going to see two other people who are close to me die? Or will it just be a death of someone that makes me shocked about it?

There was a boy who I went to school with who I heard had cancer in his legs. His legs were amputated, but they didn't catch the cancer in time and he's now dying. And there were the countless famous people (5 to be exact) that died in 2003 that shocked me. It all comes down to 6 deaths that shocked me (2 sets of three). So was that it? I'm confused.