[kassie]

Yes, it does. It truly does.

I am sitting here totally numb.
She called me every day when I was held up in a hotel room waiting for a hurricane to hit VA.
Not even my blood family called every day!

I feel like someone just hit me with a baseball bat.

[Jemian]

(((((Kassie)))))

It seems so quick, too. In March she was continuing chemotherapy and then, she couldn’t tolerate it. There was only 3.5 weeks between her last post and her death.

[Neets]

On the 18th of April.

Just past 3 in the afternoon.

Like a sucker punch to the gut.

A day i’ll never forget.

I have missed you tho and often wonder how life is going for you.

[KC Burke]

Perspective is what we often lack when posting on a thread. We are focused on the issue and on the minor record of opinion we have put on file and want to defend out positions.

Then, we notice the house is on fire, or other minor reality, and the internet is not so important.

After ten years of following this site, I have learned to smell the dust ups coming from ownership wanting to direct their creation in certain directions, from factions that want to flame-destroy their opposition on certain subjects and from Jim's realization that something has gone on long enough and to such a degree that he wants to make a wholesale sea-change and let everyone just deal with it.

I caught the smell of that dust-up about a month ago. I decided I would just stay uninvolved in the exchanges for the most part, and I have.

One of the biggest eye openers I have had was that some I disagreed with the most, were posters that when dealt with in real life were those I enjoyed the most and some that spoke chapter-and-verse in conservative positions the most like me were people that I did not enjoy.

Remember the Chesterton quote that I sometimes post that the Christianizing influence of dealing with our own relatives is the most humanizing and faith building experience we can ever have as oppossed to sitting in the club chatting with those we always agree with.

[Molly Pitcher]

She called me every day when I was held up in a hotel room waiting for a hurricane to hit VA.

Another memory of wonderful Kay. thanks for posting that kassie.

[AFPhys]

“I feel like someone just hit me with a baseball bat.”
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I know what you mean. Seldom has a person’s death hit me so hard. I’ll add you to my prayers in this matter, along with the rest of her family.