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The Herald of the Apocolypse ([personal profile] devilgrrl) wrote2008-05-17 05:05 pm
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Funeral

Article on Rich in our local newsrag.
Obituary

The funeral was today. It was very, very surreal. Rich was the first person in my peer group to really die, aside from Dawn's high school boyfriend who I didn't know well. I had said to Steven before we left that the whole thing was just fucked up; we should be making plans for coffee, not going to see him buried. When I was fishing through my closet for my default funeral dress, I found it hanging right next to the dress I wore to their wedding 3 years ago.

We're going back to see her in a little bit, after I ice down my knee. It's about the size of my head right now and I can still see shoe imprints on my foot. I shall be enjoying zoris for the rest of the week now. School will get over it and it's MCAS week next week, anyway.

Well, tomorrow is a new day, right?

[identity profile] wickedshadow.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank God for new days.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much.

[identity profile] the-karen-show.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm so sorry. funerals are so hard. especially ones for friends when we're so young.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2008-05-18 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
God, I know. This was a wholly different experience from going to funerals of my elderly relatives. I still can't get my mind around it, at all.

Your icon made me smile, btw.

[identity profile] doodle.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Gah so young...he's my age. :( Did they determine if it was a heart attack or something else?

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2008-05-18 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Scary, isn't it? He was my husband's age, too. I had always had in my head that he was a older than Steven because Beth is two years older than him, but I guess not.

I'm not sure; Beth didn't know last time I talked to her about it. He'd had his gall bladder out about a month before, but it wasn't like a long illness or anything.

[identity profile] amity26.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I am really sorry to hear about him passing. *hugs*

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2008-05-23 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.