[KangarooJacqui]

Today, Tuesday February 3rd, 2004, should have been your 32nd birthday, Chris (or "TrappedInLiberalHell", as you were fondly known here on your favourite internet forum.) The tears fall freely, but adequate words will not express my pain, so I'm going to have to borrow the lyrics from a song which seems to sum it up, at least in some small way.

Baby do you know what you did today
Baby do you know what you took away
You took the blue out of the sky
My whole life changed when you said goodbye
And I keep crying, crying


Ooooooh baby
Oooooooooooh baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine, baby
then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain


Every day is just like the day before
All alone a million miles from shore
All of my dreams, I dreamed with you
And now they will die, and never come true
And I keep crying, crying


Ooooooh baby
Oooooooooooh baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine, baby
then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain
All this pain


And I know there would not be
This cloud that's over me
Everywhere I go


Ooooooh baby
Oooooooooooh baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine, baby
then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain


All this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
It wouldn't be this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
I wouldn't mind the rain...

- Beth Orton, "I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine"


A photo of Chris and I in happier times:

[Heatseeker]

May God bless you KangarooJacqui. I've read this whole thread through: I remember wishing he had hung on until the Schwarzenegger win in CA.

I always manage to foul up when I want to write something like this but here goes: I know that Chris is in a better place and his pain is gone.

[Heatseeker]

Oops, I meant the capture of Saddam, not the CA guv race. See I knew I'd foul it up. :(

[cyborg]

feel free to freepmail me, I'll be on today at various times