A Strange Kind of Elegy

[circestale]

There are some on my flist who know, and some who don't, that my family originally hails from New Orleans. Unfortunately, divorce split the family in two some thirty year ago, after my grandmother decided she was sick and tired of the latest addition to my grandfather's long line of mistresses (that one his business partner, no less), and the

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[maggiehoneybite]

I'm very sorry, Circe. I can understand perfectly just how attached to places and things one can become, when those places and things represent a link to the past.

[spacebee]

Yes, maybe stop watching the news now.

Don't write the house off just yet. I understand the possibility for which you're preparing yourself, but the house in which I was born, which is nothing special, is still amazingly, inexplicably standing after Camille and every hurricane since.

I understand the sense of connection. My great grandparents' house is gone to some other family, and I still mourn it's going. I've had that fantasy of getting it back.

*hugs you and can't wait to see you*

[larianelensar]

*hugs* who was it that said prepare for the worst, hope for the best?

Like niere said, doin't write the house off just yet, and yeah...quit watching the news...

[rebeccasama]

*hugs* I would still wait to see what happens. I wouldn't watch the news anymore, though.

I do understand what you're going through, though. I always wanted to live in my grandfather's old house. It was a very important part of my childhood, but it ended up being torn down (for a post office :P).

I will pray that the house will ride out the storm. Maybe it will surprsie you.

[charmion]

*hugs*

As others said, it might pull through yet... it might.