Change
I keep forgetting I still have an acocunt here, so I have been lax in keeping notes here on current events. Especially the big stuff.
I lost one of my best friends this past Monday.
I had a four day weekend planned, so I was at home early Monday when I got a couple text messages from friends asking if I'd heard from our friend Sam Young aka Ugg the Wanderer, he hadn't been in contact with anyone since the Friday before. A couple of our friends were headed out to his apartment in the Richmond District to see if anything was up.
that's when they saw the emergency vehicles outside his apartment building.
and then another friend, online, linked to a news article about authorities being alterted to a dead body in an apartment building in the Richmond District.
his sister, who had been in contact with our friends who were there, flew up from Los Angeles. And identified the body.
the loss has stunned all of us who knew him, and certainly his surviving family members. Only last year his father had passed away. I can't imagine how they must be feeling after this.
I've been trying my best to be there for all my friends who also knew him, and at the same time let the grief come and drill its way through me as much as I can take. No hiding from the pain and trauma of this loss.
It's hard. It's horiffic.
It's important.
That's it for now. I've slept some, but need to sleep some more.
...Farewell, my friend Sam Young. I will never forget.
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