. . .And the Electrical Cord

[kagomeshuko]

I've never been a superstitious person. Rather, I am the person that will quote a superstition when an opportunity to perform the action happens and then I'll perform the action to prove that superstitions are silly

Comments

[witches]

So moving and really well-written <3

[kagomeshuko]

Thank you!

[eska818]

I was certainly alive when this happened, but I've never heard of this girl. I'll have to take a look!

[kagomeshuko]

This is a story that I remember well. I made sure I was remembering it correctly, and I was:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/31/us/aftershocks-of-bombing-in-many-lives-are-described.html

[kagomeshuko]

Oh, I got the name wrong, though, I think! It was just the name I didn't remember!

[millysdaughter]

This.

[kagomeshuko]

Changed the last name to "Titsworth" so it is correct!

[rayaso]

I never heard of Katie Titsworth until I read your entry. I hope I don't forget her. Thank you for writing this.

[kagomeshuko]

It's a story that's stayed with me ever since I heard it. It might stick out in my mind because just four days before the Oklahoma City Bombing, my uncle had died. (We weren't close and he had schizophrenia and scared me). My Mama had gone out to California for his funeral.

So, I had sad upon sad and that may be why it sticks with me. Who knows?

[i_17bingo]

Her sister died and she blamed herself.

Holy crap--this hit me like a punch to the stomach.

It gets into your head, though, this kind of absurd guilt and attempt to make sense out of something that makes no sense. I was twenty-five when planes crashed into the World Trade Center down the block from me, and I still ask myself "What if," as though anything I had done mattered in that situation.

But at that age, I don't know how this affects someone. I can't even comprehend.

[kagomeshuko]

Well, I'm glad the writing was effective. It does get into your head. I never had it that young, but there are those times that I think, "What if I had . . ." concerning situations.

Lately, there's been one with a friend's mother who had cancer and I've had to deal with the fact that it's not my fault that she died. To most, it probably doesn't even make sense that I'd feel that way, but to me, it makes perfect sense.