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[eck]

I watched it way too long; it was bringing me down.

Which of these issues do you recognize? care about? help fix? Poll Which points?I'm feeling increasingly like my life is pointless if I don't start devoting most of my energy to doing what I can about issues like these.

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Anything I say is going to seem so trivial.

[gloriajn]

I'm so sorry I never got a chance to meet Iain. I'm especially sorry it came to this.

Jennie and Chris, you're in my thoughts. I just wish I had some idea of what to do to make this better, aside from bringing Iain back.

Re: rest in peace.

[rivka]

Hope, I think you must be thinking of Ian Hagemann. This was Iain O'Cain, a white guy with straight hair who lived in Edmonton, not a biracial guy with curly hair who lived in Seattle.

I just wanted to make sure you knew.

Re: rest in peace.

[wild_irises]

He'd like that. He's ianh@scn.org and as of last night he was fine, though disturbed about Iain O's death.

[filkertom]

This is really, really hard.

I knew Iain back when we were both in the Michigan Weregamers, meeting every Sunday at the U-M Student Union. When I first got online in a big way, it was on Mew and Iain's computer -- I lived around the corner from them, literally a minute's walk away. Every time I saw him at a con, it was a surprise and a delight.

Damn. Damn. This is hitting me hard.

Goodbye, Iain. I wish I'd been a better friend, in every sense of that phrase, because you were a very nice guy, and you deserved better than I gave.

[mactavish]

*sigh*

My condolences to Iain's dearest ones.

[folkmew]

I've already posted some things in my journal, including Mary Ellyn's contact info per her request. I've made it public because I know there are a lot of you here who knew and loved Iain who don't know me. I will keep posting updates as I hear them on arrangements in my journal with the subject header "Iain" to make it easier to find them if you don't regularly read my journal.

I too feel deeply for Jennie and Chris and especially for Mary Ellyn who was remained a friend of mine after my divorce. Part of the reason I am so sad is that Iain had just contacted me again about a month ago and we had begun the first steps of a friendship which made me very happy since I have always thought he was a kind and good man in spite of being a bad match for me and vice versa.

I hadn't been part of his life in quite a while but at one time he was a big part of mine and I shall truly miss him. My thoughts and prayers to all of you who knew and loved him too.

[mittelbar]

Thank you.

[submarine_bells]

Thank you.