Freedom comes with great responsibilities. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. When did that poster here at FR committed suicide?
A couple years ago. Really nice guy, grew tomatoes and was on the gardening threads. It was well known that he was depressed and when we got the word, I remember sitting on a thread and crying.
Sometimes our cyberfriends mean so much. It was a time in my life where I had very young kids and had moved to a city hundreds of miles away from my family. FR was like a lifeline.
And the thing is, this girl was 13. Anyone who has been a 13 year old girl knows how easily the world can look horribly bleak. Her mother had yelled at her for language she used responding to the “boy”. Imagine what that mother is going through.