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Post by impulse on Feb 22, 2018 14:34:52 GMT -5
I just got a horrifying phone call. My cousin Kara's oldest son was murdered this afternoon, stabbed to death by his "friend" for trying to stop him from robbing someone. I don't even know where to start in processing this. The last violent death in our family happened more than 75 years ago. Good god. Oh my God. I am so terribly sorry. I offer my condolences, though they seem woefully insufficient to the occasion.
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Søren
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Post by Søren on Feb 22, 2018 14:44:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 14:47:00 GMT -5
My god, Kurt, that's horrible. Sincerest condolences to you and your family.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2018 16:18:52 GMT -5
Sorry, Kurt. What a tragedy.
Bobby Kennedy said that he often returned to these words of Aeschylus as he dealt with the pain of his brother's death, and of other tragedies his family suffered:
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 22, 2018 17:28:05 GMT -5
As it turns out, my cousin's son didn't die a heroic death. It was a meth deal gone bad. It doesn't make me feel any less heartbroken for my cousin or her now-fatherless granddaughter, mind you, but it pisses me off to see drugs and addiction claim yet another family member. Damn it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2018 18:17:50 GMT -5
This event gets worst every time you post. Sorry man.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 18:30:43 GMT -5
I'm just speechless beyond words ...
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 22, 2018 21:18:00 GMT -5
Kurt, that's unspeakably horrible. Drugs and addiction are such a terrible waste, especially with the loss of life.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 23, 2018 8:41:29 GMT -5
Still, what a horrible senseless death.
Sorry for the pain this has put on you and your family Kurt.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 22:15:32 GMT -5
Bits of Bad News
Well, the property that the County wants to sell to us has been revoked because that property adjacent to that belongs to the school and here's the reason why I can't have it. The school is now been designated a private school going from K to Middle School (K to 8th Grade) and they told us that they have the rights of first refusal to them. My brother property is untouched and not enough room to build a mother-in-law house there and the zoning commission told us that we just can't build one there without the extra land. So, I'm a little disappointed in this news that I just got a few minutes ago and back to my Condo and I haven't sold it and made any concessions to it.
My brother sold a small parcel of land that he owns that the school can use to build upon it and to him it's an unwanted piece of land that he's can't do anything about it and not feasible to build a house on it and anything else. The School can use it immediately and they can put a portable classroom on that property with no trouble at all.
The Good News is that my neighbor (pot smoker) is already moved to Phoenix Arizona and will be staying there until the end of April. She'll be coming back around mid-May and stay here until Halloween this year. She'll be staying in Phoenix from November to April and have a daughter that will be staying here in her Condo for that duration. Very nice lady in her upper 30's. She's doesn't smoke pot ... yeah!
Anyway, later in April ... my Brother and I are thinking off other options and I don't know where it's leads here. But, I'm certain that we'll find one suitable for my 1st Home.
Back to Square One ...
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 23, 2018 22:54:54 GMT -5
At least you got a respite from the pothead.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 24, 2018 7:31:57 GMT -5
A present from my son taking its place among my geek stuff.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 24, 2018 11:42:53 GMT -5
Bit of a #dadbrag, but I am simply amazed by each of my daughters every day.
Last night, I had the privilege to attend the 6th grade county chorus concert, which my older daughter was participating in. It's a big honor to even get selected, as only a couple of kids from each school get to go, and as this is only her first year singing with a teacher, it's pretty cool that she made it.
On top of that, she's the top flute player in her grade in the district, the top butterfly swimmer for her age on her highly-competitive rec league team, and she's working on yet another school year of straight A's.
It's all got to come from her mother (and God), because I sure as heck have neither musical nor athletic ability to pass along to eithet of my girls.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 24, 2018 12:13:38 GMT -5
I'm late to the news Cei-U but I am sorry for the ghastly events that have happened to your family. I hope that y'all can find peace with these incidents at some point.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 24, 2018 13:30:32 GMT -5
@mechagodzilla
Sorry for the temporary set back with the condo situation, but you and your brother will come up with a different solution I'm sure.
... and the pothead is gone. Yay !
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