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Posted on 04/16/2006 10:05:42 PM PDT by Panerai
A romantic stargazer who was just days away from whisking away his girlfriend on a surprise Paris trip to pop the question plummeted to his death early yesterday morning when he fell from the roof of his Massachusetts Avenue apartment.
“He had the tickets. He had the ring. He just didn’t have the time,” said Don Coulon, whose 28-year-old son, Gregory, was found dead after falling from the roof at 552 Massachusetts Ave.
Coulon, 28, a Boston University systems analyst and computer programmer, was set to jet his girlfriend of several years, Michelle Kovach, to the City of Lights Wednesday where he planned to ask her to be his bride.
“If two people were meant to be together, it was those two. They finished each other’s sentences. . . . She loved Paris. I think that’s why he wanted to take her back there,” said Don Coulon of Sarasota, Fla.
Coulon, who lived on the sixth floor, was on the roof with a mutual male friend when he disappeared.
Police later found him after opening a door that led to an air shaft in the basement of the apartment building, said Officer Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman.
While police are investigating the death, Paul Coulon thinks his nephew may have been on the roof stargazing.
“He loved astronomy. They were up on the roof looking at the stars, stargazing,” said Paul Coulon, a New Hampshire resident. Coulon was an avid astronomy enthusiast who studied at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., as a boy and took astronomy as a major for a short time while he was an undergraduate at BU.
His girlfriend, Kovach, was being comforted in seclusion yesterday by her parents at the apartment she shared with Coulon. The couple had planned to entertain family for Easter dinner.
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Terribly sad story. Sounds like he was a nice guy.
Guess they weren't meant to be together after all.
"Always remember - your roof might as well have been designed by Empire architects (you know, the guys that put bridges and balconies over bottomless pits without railings), so plan accordingly."
There should have been a railing...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THUD..........
Dawrin Award....
Darwin...HELLO?
It wasn't in the stars?
That is Disgusting! Greg Coulon was my boyfriend for two years in college. He was bright and inquisitive, he was funny, he had many talents, he could work a computer, he could play the bass, he loved his family, he loved his friends. My stomach is in knots at the thought of his final moments, and you mock this with the heartless comment. Would you want someone to say that about you if you had an tragic accident? Have a heart! Think of those of us that knew him and are grieving over this sudden unexpected tragedy. You are a cold and thoughtless individual, next time, think before you post something on a public forum where Greg's friends and family can see it.
Insider ping.
He was on the roof with a "mutual male friend"? I am not suggesting he was pushed but didn't the friend see him fall?
You just happened to sign up today and just happened to spot this one post out of thousands entered? You need to play the lottery.
Star crossed lovers...
And your point would be what?
Maybe she was Googling his name and the post came up.
No matter, this guy seems like he was liked and loved by a lot of people.
Like suzy said, have a heart.
SZ
I'm not falling for her story.
If you Google "Gregory Coulon", this thread is the 25th item that comes up.
He sounds like he was quite a guy.
Would you want someone to say that about you if you had an tragic accident?
I, for one, would hope that FReepers saw some humor in my demise, particularly if it were something spectacular. (I'm hoping to die laughing - at something, probably me).
That being said, some of us can only cope with tragedy through humor.
OTOH, he could just be a heartless basturd...
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