Comments on: A Grievous Loss http://coolmom.com/2009/07/28/a-grievous-loss/ parents don't know what they are doing anyway, might as well laugh about it Tue, 22 May 2012 01:28:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daphne http://coolmom.com/2009/07/28/a-grievous-loss/#comment-9465 Daphne Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:59:33 +0000 http://coolmom.com/?p=3608#comment-9465 I know. I was speaking to one of our security guys at work today who is a retired County Sheriff. He was saying that statistically LA is safer than it was 40 years ago. I believe that, but I know the one time I was held up it was in a neighborhood that had seen crime in ten years. just some bad luck. And literally, so close to home You don't think in daylight, off a busy street this will happen. I still can't shove it to the side of my brain. It's like if I think about what occured maybe I can make it have a different outcome. Totally irrational obviously. There will be no corrective emotional experience. I know. I was speaking to one of our security guys at work today who is a retired County Sheriff. He was saying that statistically LA is safer than it was 40 years ago. I believe that, but I know the one time I was held up it was in a neighborhood that had seen crime in ten years. just some bad luck. And literally, so close to home

You don’t think in daylight, off a busy street this will happen. I still can’t shove it to the side of my brain. It’s like if I think about what occured maybe I can make it have a different outcome. Totally irrational obviously. There will be no corrective emotional experience.

]]> By: Sadie http://coolmom.com/2009/07/28/a-grievous-loss/#comment-9460 Sadie Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:30:02 +0000 http://coolmom.com/?p=3608#comment-9460 I read this post, and the page you linked to, with a sinking heart. Today I've been thinking about a girl called Amy Leigh Barnes. The headline this morning was that her boyfriend has been sentenced to life for her murder. It's a 'story' that many of us in the UK have been horrified by. More than just Amy's suffering, the awful, awful things that her parents saw and have had to deal with are just terrible. Young life being suddenly and violently snuffed out... it happens all over the world, and it is monstrous. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8160701.stm). Sorry to be so depressing, it just really struck a chord that we've all been thinking about these different girls. I read this post, and the page you linked to, with a sinking heart. Today I’ve been thinking about a girl called Amy Leigh Barnes. The headline this morning was that her boyfriend has been sentenced to life for her murder. It’s a ‘story’ that many of us in the UK have been horrified by. More than just Amy’s suffering, the awful, awful things that her parents saw and have had to deal with are just terrible.
Young life being suddenly and violently snuffed out… it happens all over the world, and it is monstrous.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8160701.stm).

Sorry to be so depressing, it just really struck a chord that we’ve all been thinking about these different girls.

]]> By: Daphne http://coolmom.com/2009/07/28/a-grievous-loss/#comment-9426 Daphne Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:00:50 +0000 http://coolmom.com/?p=3608#comment-9426 these random, awful acts that take someone's child. ugh. Any words are not good enough. these random, awful acts that take someone’s child. ugh. Any words are not good enough.

]]> By: Alexandra http://coolmom.com/2009/07/28/a-grievous-loss/#comment-9422 Alexandra Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:50:36 +0000 http://coolmom.com/?p=3608#comment-9422 You don't have to be funny every day, Daphne. Life has it's curveballs it throws at people. We had a young girl here last week, only 18, she worked at a convenience store. A lazy ass drove right through the front of the store and struck and killed her while she worked, because he didn't want to have to get out of his car and pay for gas, so he got back in and wanted to drive as close as possible to go inside and pay. He says he lost control while he tried to pull his wallet out of his pocket. And now this family's 18 yr old beautiful daughter, who was working for the summer before college, is dead. You don’t have to be funny every day, Daphne. Life has it’s curveballs it throws at people. We had a young girl here last week, only 18, she worked at a convenience store. A lazy ass drove right through the front of the store and struck and killed her while she worked, because he didn’t want to have to get out of his car and pay for gas, so he got back in and wanted to drive as close as possible to go inside and pay. He says he lost control while he tried to pull his wallet out of his pocket.

And now this family’s 18 yr old beautiful daughter, who was working for the summer before college, is dead.

]]> By: desiree fawn http://coolmom.com/2009/07/28/a-grievous-loss/#comment-9420 desiree fawn Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:52:39 +0000 http://coolmom.com/?p=3608#comment-9420 I just read the news story and this is just awful. I will be thinking about it for a long time. My heart goes out to that family. I just read the news story and this is just awful. I will be thinking about it for a long time.
My heart goes out to that family.

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