Unhappy discovery
I've lost track of many friends over the years. The closest friends of my life are long gone by and large. I've been holding on to a very old email address mainly for the hope that anyone I've lost track of in the last decade might try to email me using the last address they had. No matter.
I had a very close friend I knew from about 1990 through 1995. We spent a great deal of time together those years. Then one day she simply vanished. She stopped going to our usual haunts, calling, or even showing up at her job or classes. I tried calling her only to be stonewalled by her family. There was an incident with a Pentecostal faith healer that I've long suspected had something to do with her sudden disappearance. She had a few health issues she was taking medication for. Atleast one was a fairly serious psychiatric condition. The last time I saw her this idiot of a faith healer was putting on quite the act and telling her to throw away all her medication. Unfortunately, at the time something else had come up and I had to leave to deal with it. In retrospect I wish I'd stayed around to talk to her. It was the last time I ever saw her.
Long story short, recently while researching something else I ran across her obituary from '96.
I had a very close friend I knew from about 1990 through 1995. We spent a great deal of time together those years. Then one day she simply vanished. She stopped going to our usual haunts, calling, or even showing up at her job or classes. I tried calling her only to be stonewalled by her family. There was an incident with a Pentecostal faith healer that I've long suspected had something to do with her sudden disappearance. She had a few health issues she was taking medication for. Atleast one was a fairly serious psychiatric condition. The last time I saw her this idiot of a faith healer was putting on quite the act and telling her to throw away all her medication. Unfortunately, at the time something else had come up and I had to leave to deal with it. In retrospect I wish I'd stayed around to talk to her. It was the last time I ever saw her.
Long story short, recently while researching something else I ran across her obituary from '96.