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Max called last night.... about a friend of his... had I heardabout Charlotte? Do you know what happened? Can you find out? You know her, right?
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Charlotte was 22. She will never be 23. She was a waitress at a pizza joint where Max and I used to watch the Packer Games. She was a local girl and, like Max, went to the local University. They knew a lot of the same people.... a smallish clique of film/art/music students. I knew a bunch of them.... really good kids. Charlotte, mostly from the Pizza joint. I certainly was not up late enough to catch the band she fronted, "Charley and the Cynics", nor do I longer hang out in loud rock&roll bars. Max, other folks said that thy were good.
No one knows, right now, what happened. She talked with a friend in the morning and when she didn't show up at the Pizza joint they went looking for her and ....... So far, drugs or alcohol do not seem to be an issue .... Max is a little stunned. " How can you talk with someone and two weeks later, they're dead?" Death to him is still something that happens old people. Certainly not to gifted and talented young people
We talked.... or rather I listened.
I didn't have any answers. And he really wasn't asking questions.
This stuff sucks and I don't mind saying so, but who pays attention to me?
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That's a shame, such a young and talented person. Makes the snow not seem to suck as much in comparison...so sad.
It is a shame. I recall similar events when I was in my youth, and they do seem so odd at that age, when someone who is contemporary to you dies.
As to the snow. We got entirely too much, and given how long it was before we had any, I think it was incumbent on the snow gods to give us a complete pass for the year. Fair is fair.
So sorry to hear about your son's friend....my condolences to him and all of her loved ones.
Ah, snow....beautiful to look at, cool to visit for a few days, a royal bitch to deal with on a regular basis. I'm staying put. Well, I might leave Monday when the GOP asshats descend for the debate........
I'm sorry to hear about Charlotte. She had her whole life ahead of her, and this must have come as a blow to her loved ones.
It's terribly sad to learn someone has died so young. I hope Max and her friends and family will be consoled by having known her a little while.
Well fuck, that just sucks.
"...Any man's (woman's) death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." John Donne
All.... I have always tried to be a friend to my children's friends. Coaching, helping, listening.... they are all good kids.... it hurts.
What a tasteful tribute to this talented young woman Jim.
oh just ouch. and what Randal said.
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