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Registered: January 1970
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of your time. A friend told me once that when something eats at your heart to write it down. Where better than here, where I know I'm accepted; where I know I'm safe.
I helped bury a friend yesterday. He died the first of the week in a senseless car accident. He was 16 like me. Nothing went easy; his death, his girlfriend's attempt to go with him, the constant pouring rain, his mother's insistence on a rather 'different' funeral........nothing. Thank you timmy.... Ron, Steve; I don't think I could have gotten through it without ya'll. I'm not an easy person to know, so your patience helped me through the impossible dark in the middle of the night.
He was a skater...one of a group of 13 boys that grew up together. We knew almost all our secrets. His mother asked that we be the pallbearers and insisted that we wear our skater stuff. The objections were loud and weird but, for once, blue hair, pierced eyebrows and black skin were accepted quietly in the church.
There is something about a young person's funeral..........you can't celebrate their life....they haven't had one. The silence was deafening. His mom had asked that one of us say something...it was left to me, standing there in my ripped jeans, OP t-shirt and my vest with the sunrise that my best friend had sewed on the back. I had written some words, meaningless and trivial, but when I walked up there, I just started to talk. Some of timmy's words flowed into my mind.
"In Heaven, there's a place called the Rainbow Bridge. It's arched and comes into a beautiful meadow where all the pets we've loved are playing, waiting for us. Go there, Cam. Wait. One day, we'll skate that bridge, all of us. God will let us, maybe he'll even try it too and you'll finally make that double back flip. See ya, bud."
The last song was not a hymn......It was 'Imagine' by John Lennon. The school jazz chorus sang and the world came back into focus. We had a wake for him last night, his girlfriend has promised not to try again, little Eddie, the fella that was getting beaten up last year, is now officially the 13th skater and the world goes on; less one beautiful boy who would have made a difference.
Please just accept this as something I needed to say; one of the steps, I guess, of letting go...........moving on. God bless......
smith
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If I could have a moment.................
By: smith on Sat, 22 March 2003 13:43 |
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Hugs for you, smith.
By: lenny on Sat, 22 March 2003 14:01 |
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Re: If I could have a moment.................
By: timmy on Sat, 22 March 2003 14:06 |
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HUGS..no more no less just hugs
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Hugs smith
By: nick on Sat, 22 March 2003 14:43 |
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Re: If I could have a moment.................
By: saben on Sat, 22 March 2003 14:47 |
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Lots of hugs...
By: setras on Sat, 22 March 2003 14:47 |
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Re: If I could have a moment.................
By: mihangel on Sat, 22 March 2003 16:15 |
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Love and hugs. You are a good person.
By: charlie on Sat, 22 March 2003 16:16 |
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Loss of a Friend
By: ashley on Sat, 22 March 2003 19:31 |
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Re: If I could have a moment.................
By: Guest on Sat, 22 March 2003 20:02 |
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Re: If I could have a moment.................
By: brian! on Sat, 22 March 2003 20:14 |
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Death and Life
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I'm so sorry
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Here's a hug for you, smith
By: e on Sun, 23 March 2003 03:48 |
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Re: If I could have a moment.................
By: ron on Sun, 23 March 2003 05:54 |
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Thanks for sharing
By: trevor on Sun, 23 March 2003 05:55 |
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Thank You
By: smith on Sun, 23 March 2003 11:44 |
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