I'm so sorry, JZ.
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear. Wash: So?
'Objects In Space'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Apr 05, 2020 3:08:18 pm PDT #19332 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Cass - Apr 05, 2020 3:09:20 pm PDT #19333 of 30019
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
but I need to call my dad's girlfriend to tell her. I can't even say or write the words; how can I tell her?
You tell her it's time. And I'm so sorry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 05, 2020 3:17:41 pm PDT #19334 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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P.M. Marc - Apr 05, 2020 3:39:25 pm PDT #19335 of 30019
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What Cass said, and I'm so sorry.
Mom says their neighbor two doors over, a sweet woman who was the caretaker for the wonderful people, Pat and Lucy, who lived there when I was growing up (they had no children and left her the house), who lost two children unexpectedly (a daughter who drowned as a child and a son who died in his sleep in his 30s), who had had two kidney transplants, is in the ICU with COVID-19 and expected to be taken off life support today.
I remember helping sort through paperwork with her when Lucy passed, as Pat was hospitalized at the time, trying to find everything we needed, which was hard, because the town where Lucy was born no longer existed and this was the 1990s and not everything was online.
This all could have turned out so differently. It didn't have to be like this.
It really didn't.
Jesse - Apr 05, 2020 3:56:00 pm PDT #19336 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is all so brutal. JZ, I know you do just right, with all of this. Make sure you can be taken care of, too, in addition to taking care of everyone else.
Amy - Apr 05, 2020 4:06:15 pm PDT #19337 of 30019
Because books.
Oh, JZ, I'm so sorry. That's a terrible conversation to have to have.
This all could have turned out so differently. It didn't have to be like this.
It really didn't.
Yes, this. Also, it's really nice to see Cass here.
Dana - Apr 05, 2020 4:19:25 pm PDT #19338 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm so sorry, JZ.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 05, 2020 4:30:06 pm PDT #19339 of 30019
What is even happening?
JZ, I am so sorry.
Before you call your father's girlfriend, maybe pull up your email you sent to your brothers so that you have some of the words handy? I don't know.
I hope you're all of one mind. That was a mercy for my mother and me when we decided on palliative care for my father.
Make sure you can be taken care of, too, in addition to taking care of everyone else.
And what Jesse said.
This all could have turned out so differently. It didn't have to be like this.
It really didn't.
No. It did not. I've had to park my anger because it's not productive anger. I'm sorry about your parents' neighbor, Plei.
JZ - Apr 05, 2020 4:38:17 pm PDT #19340 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
This all could have turned out so differently. It didn't have to be like this.
It really didn't.
No. It did not. I've had to park my anger because it's not productive anger.
In between the tears and the la-la-la flibbertigibbert distractions, I am a vibrating ball of world's-angriest-dog level rage.
We told Matilda, and she cried and cried and now she's talking to one of her best friends and then she's going to call Emmett.
P.M. Marc - Apr 05, 2020 4:39:33 pm PDT #19341 of 30019
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Thanks. I didn't know her especially well, as I'd moved out by the time Pat died so she was never my neighbor, but we were both very close to Pat and Lucy (who were like surrogate grandparents to me, very much so--Melanie and I were two of the few individuals in Pat's will, as most of his estate went to charity) and it's hitting me much harder than it should be.
I'm angry for Melanie, for JZ's family, for all of us. And just so, so, so deeply sad.