Aug 15, 2008 10:24
Just found out a friend of mine is dying...I saw Phil only last week, and it looks like he's recovering well from his cancer and I think he'll be fine...Now Rhiannon has a melanoma in her spine. I didn't know her that well. She worked with Becky. But I hung out with her a number of times...spent New Years with her, went to see the sakura blossoms in Ueno Park with her. She is a really great ozzy gal, and there will be a little less happiness in the world without her. She hurt her back and neck surfing down her stairs at her apartment, and was flown back to specialists in Australia...where they discovered she had terminal cancer and is expected to die within the week. How is that even possible?
Two days ago I finished my novel. Today I got a wedding invitation and a notice that a friend is dying, like one of those "circle of life" metaphors in a bad movie. My life is fiction.