Bump, Set, Spike...

[psyyche]

May you have nothing but aces in the everafter.

So.. Mike Whitmarsh is (was?) my cousin. I never met him. He was from a part of my family that I never had contact with, which was not unusual. Aside from his rather cool life, he'd been sort of special to me because of something silly.

My parents just knew I was gonna be a boy, so they only

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[josiefiend]

I thought the same when I was pregnant with Zoe. I had all kinds of great boy names picked out but the only girl name I could think of was Catherine, after my grandmother in the Scottish tradition.

Years ago, one of my friends thought my name was Zoe when she first met me. I liked it so much better than Joey that I never corrected her when she called me that. It was the only girl name that came to mind when she was born. I remember her dad saying "Ok, we'll call her Zoe Catherine. Right?" I panicked because I thought he was filling out the birth certificate. I was adamant that she be Zoe Sabrina instead. I still don't know where Sabrina came from. Weird.

Sorry about your cousin. Even if you didn't get a chance to meet him.

[elessa]

wow. i read the article yesterday in the SD trib and found it to be very sad. strange how small the world is to learn that someone i know was touched by his death in a personal way.

i am sorry you lost your chance to meet him. i kinda understand the reflection of not waiting to talk to someone before it is too late. i regret not talking to a great aunt of mine even though i had a letter from her on my desk which i saw daily to remind me to. it lay there for eight months until the day she was struck and killed by a vehicle.

[kambrieloktober]

Is this the guy that I heard about on the radio this morning?

There was a report that an Olympic medalist had committed suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning in a house in Solana Beach, and he was found Tuesday.

Sorry to hear about your cousin, even if you never had a chance to meet him. There's still that "connection" there, knowing that he was a blood relative.

[christalblu]

While Mike isn't here you can still at least reach out to family. I'm sorry for your loss of someone you didn't quite get to meet. That said I hope you think about perhaps reaching out to them in their time of need. I'm sure that perhaps they may find comfort in at least knowing they have more family and that you've always cared.

Christal