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May 05, 2007
Laughter Through Tears Is The Best Kind
This is from a email I received from my sister...
So the husband of the counselor at Janie's school was killed in a car accident, very tragic, and so the kids all made sympathy cards for her. And that put Janie on a kick of writing sympathy cards, one for Grandad because his dad is blind and one for Grandma because her parents died. I had a hard time explaining that sometimes its not nice to point out other people's misfortunes long after the wound has healed and there's no need to bring it up.
So she asked about you and [Mr. Pilot] a couple days ago and I told her that you weren't boyfriend and girlfriend anymore. I thought this might be a good outlet for the "sympathy-card-frenzy". So I suggested that she might make you a card to make you feel better. Her response: I only make cards for dead people. Is he dead? I told her that he was not dead. She looked away with a "case closed" look on her face. "Then he doesn't get one."
Happy cinco de mayo, dear readers.
