Oh, Jvette, I’m so sorry. You may have mentioned it here when it first happened but there have been so many reports of our posters losing people that I’m losing track. Please forgive me for an imprecise memory. My condolences are real and sincere. I feel like Paul Newman at the end of Absence of Malice. We all know damage was done and people have died, but there’s nobody to see to fix it or stop it. I want the suffering and loss of the people we care about to end, but I know it’s really just starting and will pick up speed as more time passes. The helplessness is crushing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMj3uqFKG84
One of my favourite Buffalo bridge partners suffered a stroke at the bridge table minutes ago. A different partner who was playing against him at the time just texted me with that report because he knew partner A and I were supposed to play next week. “Please God, I’m begging and praying for you to make it stop. Amen.”
At the same time I make that prayer, I know that events have been set in motion and they will probably have to play out to their horrible conclusion. Superman isn’t coming to fly backwards around the planet twenty times to turn back the clock to a time when all of this could have been prevented.