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There's a train coming

Jan 18, 2009 12:33

It was election night. I was driving across town to drop off my mail-in ballot that I hadn't gotten mailed. Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready came on the radio and it struck me as profoundly apt to the night ( Read more... )

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Jan jourdannex January 27 2009, 23:45:52 UTC

I wanted to let people here on Jan's list know that I found out today she has passed away. I am very sorry to have to leave this here...I just did not know where else to put it.

You will be missed Jan more than you will ever know. After 11 years of hearing from you every day...I do not know what I will do now.

All my love.

Re: Jan frawst January 29 2009, 05:01:05 UTC

dammit.

Re: Jan jourdannex January 29 2009, 05:58:33 UTC

I am sorry Travis...I know she has been a friend for a long time. I hate this impersonal part of letting things be known here. I have been on the phone all day and in emails with her co-workers who did not know she even wrote at all. Trying to explain her, I feel like her quote from tinyboxes.com:

"Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more.- J.M.Barrie, The Adventures of Peter Pan"

Re: Jan frawst January 29 2009, 06:23:53 UTC

I knew she wasn't well
just not that she was THAT not well.

I feel like I missed out.
There was always more, like you said.

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words_spoken January 28 2009, 00:58:31 UTC

Dearest Jan,

Thank you so much for your friendship over the years. I will miss reading your words and your love across the cyber-miles.

Rest well my dear.

Love and hugs, Susan

markmc03 January 28 2009, 02:27:17 UTC

I am sorry to hear this. She was always a very passionate writer. I hope her boys will be cared for. She loved her pekes.

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markmc03 January 28 2009, 04:35:09 UTC

Good luck with that. I hope you are able to rescue them. It's too bad she didn't have family who could step in and help.

markmc03 January 28 2009, 04:38:11 UTC

She was such a young woman. Do you know how she went?

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nobodyeverybody February 2 2009, 01:19:41 UTC

Wow. This is crazy. I didn't even know she was sick. What did she pass from?

jourdannex February 2 2009, 01:28:34 UTC

She has been sick a long time..I just don't think she realized how sick she was..she wrote about it a while back but she must have deleted it, I cannot find it. She had heart and thyroid problems and is on oxygen but recently she had a flu she could not shake. I am in touch with her coworkers and her cousin and we will only know the official cause once the coroner releases it. :(

nobodyeverybody February 2 2009, 01:30:12 UTC

That's just so horrible. I never knew. I always envisioned her playing in a field with her boys. Never sick or anything

jourdannex February 2 2009, 01:42:08 UTC

No one knew...I don't think she did until it was too late :( She lived alone and was very private..and proud. She didn't like to ask for help..I think we are all just completely devastated by her loss. Luckily, someone who knew how much her dogs meant to her went and picked them up, I did not find out until Wednesday she was gone...because her supervisor could not find me to contact me, she had my old number as an emergency contact. I was very worried about the dogs, they were in a shelter but Barb went and got them and they are with her sister who knew and loved Jan...and understands what a traumatic incident they have been through..I am so grateful to them for stepping up and doing this. I am so sorry you did not know.

sirencall February 4 2009, 19:14:54 UTC

jourdannex February 5 2009, 17:16:08 UTC

This is just beautiful..