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indigo_rose99Gaming with you has been a cornerstone of my husband's life longer than I've known him.
You never seemed to mind coming into my house only through the garage. You sat in the cat's favorite chair with no visible wincing that we had just pulled it from the garage and tried to pull most of the cat hair from it 10 minutes before.
I have long accepted that there is a group mind in your gaming group. However, you were one of the ones least impacted by it, managing to stay a reasonable human being even when caught up in it.
Yesterday when Rich called and I saw my husband's face go blank with shock... I knew it was you. Before he listed contact information for every other member of the gaming group, I knew it was you. The heart attack a few years ago? You were the youngest person I have ever met to have a heart attack. You didn't change your life. You were probably not even surprised.
But... I have never watched. I have been on the other end of that phone call, doing the telling. But I have never been on this end. Watching. I never had to see the face of someone taking the news.
Friday nights will not be the same for a long time.
You never seemed to mind coming into my house only through the garage. You sat in the cat's favorite chair with no visible wincing that we had just pulled it from the garage and tried to pull most of the cat hair from it 10 minutes before.
I have long accepted that there is a group mind in your gaming group. However, you were one of the ones least impacted by it, managing to stay a reasonable human being even when caught up in it.
Yesterday when Rich called and I saw my husband's face go blank with shock... I knew it was you. Before he listed contact information for every other member of the gaming group, I knew it was you. The heart attack a few years ago? You were the youngest person I have ever met to have a heart attack. You didn't change your life. You were probably not even surprised.
But... I have never watched. I have been on the other end of that phone call, doing the telling. But I have never been on this end. Watching. I never had to see the face of someone taking the news.
Friday nights will not be the same for a long time.
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Date: 2008-05-16 03:42 am (UTC)Powerful piece of writing, by the way.