Monday, November 10, 2008

Shocking Monday

I was going to blog about my 101 things list. I was going to blog about how we did nothing all weekend and it was wonderful. I was going to blog about getting ready for the holidays. I was going to blog about my latest story that I'm working on. But all of that went out the window with one phone call.

My mom was looking through the paper and found an obit for a friend of mine. We were friends in high school and two weeks after graduation, he married my best friend (at the time). We hung out together a lot over the course of the next few years. Then things tapered off. They did their thing, I did mine. They are no longer married, but they have 3 beautiful children (the boys are the same age as Lyric, their daughter just turned 19 and is about to have a baby of her own). The obit says he died "peacefully at home". There are notes in the online memory book that say things like "we didn't you call me" "I would have been there for you" "why did you leave us". I don't know for sure, but it seems like maybe it was self induced.

I called another friend, and she and I are planning to attend the visitation on Wednesday. I don't know if we'll be greated warmly by the ex-wife, but we're planning to show our support.

3 comments:

ALLY2HisHeart said...

Oh dear Amy, that is very sad. My deepest condolences to his family, and to you on the loss of your friend. Very sad...there are no right words!

Ally

Amy said...

That is bad. Very heartbreaking, my condolences go out to you :D

lynn said...

So sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. Way too young! My condolences.