a different sort of angel... David Mattis: March 24, 1973-January 2014

[elionwyr]

At my first haunt, Grisly Gothic Gables, sometimes we needed to have wall panels attached to the floor with concrete screws.  One of our crew members, “Donk,” usually did this for us, so we called it ‘donking the wall.’

This past year - and many years since Grisly - while building the Chamber of Horrors, I found myself checking walls and telling

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[ysobelle]

Oh, honey, I'm so terribly sorry.

[elionwyr]

Thank you.
In the way life works, I've read his note, I've figured in strangers' dreams about his death, and I've connected different sides of his life. I ended up paying to have his online obituary edited..it hurts my heart to see how few people have visited the site, though.

[p_m_cryan]

Every loss hurts.

[elionwyr]

It doesn't feel real.
And I'm having guilt about not being able to help. He struggled with this depression a lot - I had no idea how much.