death is not the end.

[devowasright]

there has been much peripheral death around me this year. an unsettling amount. my grandfather died in december. since then, betsy's grandmother, her ex-husbands grandmother, a co-worker's father, a co-worker's mother, a friend's father, two of my regulars at the coffee shop, and another in hospice, close to the end, and one of my best friends just

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[assist]

there aren't a lot of happy memories of before left for me. this is one of the only ones. and it is now on the disposal pile, ready to be cannibalized and distributed and gotten rid of.

I totally feel you - that was how I felt when Katrina took out my aunt's house in Mississippi..it was the last of the childhood places for me.

Never fear, though - despite it's physical disappearance, it will always remain in your heart and in your mind, which nothing can take away from you.

Love.