Re: MY HEART IS BROKEN

emmygrace · ‎02-12-2020

@Lindsays Grandma wrote:
Yesterday I received an e-mail from the daughter of my friend who I communicated with for nine years via e-mail, to let me know her father had passed. He was her father and my dear friend. I e-mailed him in March of 2011 to let him know a mutual friend of ours was close to death from breast cancer and from that day forward we became friends. We never met, he was in Minnesota and I am here in Arizona. He sent the funniest and most interesting articles to her which she in turn forwarded to me, that's how I knew who he was. He and I were very close in age, my birthday is in May, his in July, a few months and 5 days apart in age, we had a lot in common, and both divorced for many, many years.

Unfortunately his daughter did not elaborate as to what caused his death. I hadn't heard from him since the middle of May and started to worry so I e-mailed his daughter to ask if he was okay, she responded with a very short note saying he was in the hospital for 2 weeks and would be going to rehab, period. I know that he had instructed her to contact me if anything ever happened to him so I felt comfortable in contacting her but she was no nonsense and to the point, thankfully she did let me know he passed. I will miss the great camaraderie we had, we shared everything and I thank God he was in my life for these last nine years, I always had something to look forward to, now there is only emptiness.

I am sorry for the length of my thread, please forgive me. I just have so much bottled up. There have been too many deaths in my life, a daughter, a son, mother, father, 3 of my dearest and closest women friends and now Jim. It hurts, a lot.

I am SO sorry for the loss of your dear friend...and all the others too! Yes, it does hurt...

Sending hugs!!!! xox