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fairykiss22

One Year Post

Aug 29, 2006 06:31

I actually wrote this yesterday, so I could post it this morning before school on the official one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I've been trying to think of something to say for about a month now, because I've known it was coming and it was staring me down.

You knew this was coming, right? For a while I considered not saying anything, ( Read more... )

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cambryn August 29 2006, 12:49:15 UTC

Ah, this post made me want to hug you, and not just the *hug* type of thing but I mean, right after reading it I had this urge to HUG (as weird as that sounds.) I did it to my roommates dog instead, but...

I wish you were here to hug, as right now I just feel all tremulous, and teary eyed and I'm admiring you so much right now. I don't know how I would, or if I could at all, handle what SO many people like you have... I can't imagine.

I'm not eloguent, by any means, and right now I wish I was more than I have in a long time. You're just awesome.

And y'all who have been through this deserve chocolate, parades, and gardens of roses. So, I hope that all your days go well, but especially today. You deserve a good long koala hug, and I hope you get one today. Heck, I hope you get many. *hugs*

mslilyevans August 29 2006, 20:40:38 UTC

Heh. I just finished typing up one of these myself. :reads:
In regards to human capacity to do things that are incredible I feel exactly the same way. We really do need those people, and I try to be that person as often as I can.
Would you keep Katrina from happening if you could? I would let it happen if I could still gain the things I gained without losing the things I lost. But if I hadn't lost the things I'd lost, I wouldn't have gained the things I'd gained in the first place. So while I would like to regain the things I lost, I don't want to lose the things I gained. So like you said. I. Don't. Know. (I apologize for the mind-boggling circles those statements go through, but that's what I'm feeling, and it all makes sense. In my head ( ... )

foofbunny August 31 2006, 08:52:26 UTC

I feel kind of lame that it took me this long to respond, but I needed time to gather my thoughts together ( ... )

xalifesochanged September 7 2006, 03:42:13 UTC

I know I'm a bit late, but I really haven't had enough time to actually make a productive comment ( ... )

hinter October 12 2006, 01:38:20 UTC

Oh, baby. *hugs so very very much*

You and I don't have that much in common. We shipped Neville/Luna together, once upon a time, before I fell more or less out of the whole HP fandom, but you know, I think the fact that I hopped onto TGSMT that one day may well have changed my life. Because that was where I came across you, and even if we share so little by now it's almost absurd, there's something we do share, and it's that, deep, core humanity that speaks to everyone alike -- and a penchant to express that humanity, if we can, in words.

I've never lived in a city. I've never been to Louisiana; I've never celebrated Mardi Gras. I've never believed in God or evacuated my home or switched schools. I've never endured anything like what you have, and I hope I never will, because I don't think I could ever be strong enough, not in a hundred lifetimes. But even so, I've read what you've had to say, and I've felt it, even when I couldn't imagine it. It's made me cry. It's made me believe in you, in New Orleans, in the world and in the ( ... )