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April 11, 2007
Does it HAVE to come in three's?
My dad just called me to let me know that my Aunt Kathy died a couple of days ago. Heart attack. She was an...interesting individual. She did a lot of bad things towards my mom during the divorce between her and Dad, so it's always been weird dealing with her, you know? The last time I saw her was about three years ago at a reunion, and she was a little too drunk and started spouting off about Mom, and I just shut her down right then and there, really put her in her place, and that was the last time we ever talked.
My grandma's probably going to die tonight or tomorrow. We've been, as bad as it sounds, waiting for her to go for the last ten years or so. She's been ate up by alzheimer's and dementia for all of that time, so this will really be a release more than anything. I don't find it a coincidence at all that a couple weeks back I started reading Chandler's 'The Long Goodbye'.
So, yeah. Two's company, three would be a crowd.
EDIT: Hopefully, this is the third. Vonnegut had a huge impact on me when I finally got into his work a couple of years back. So much so that I actually broke up with a girl last year using a quote from 'Timequake'. For you fellow creators out there, I really recommend picking up a copy of 'Like Shaking Hands With God', a conversation about writing between Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer. I read that before having read any of his work, so it was like getting to know him first, which I think made his books that much more personal. So it goes.
Posted by Schamberger at April 11, 2007 08:42 PM