“I’m going to be an engineer,” she said, after the fire had settled into a deep blue flame and we had sat in front of it long enough to feel hungry rather than cold.
i miss her. i met her once; we and her housemates had dinner together in a sportsbar across from where i work.
she said a lot of things which mean a lot to me and taught me a lot of things about the road i'm walking which helped shape me into the person i am today.
she always will be a second mother to me, and i regret having not spent more time with her.
I was about to visit her a few weeks before she..capybyraJanuary 11 2010, 05:54:10 UTC
first missed connection was about a week before her entering hospital. Second missed was the literal week she died. Recently, I mentioned feeling my death as imminent- and I said it as:
"I thought that I'd be discussing trains with Traci shortly- in person"
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You do strange things when you mourn.
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“You can’t do that.”
“Of course I can.”
“I mean they won’t let a women do that.”
“Maybe I’ll build my own railroad.”
“Might as well. We’re already making tracks.”
She laughed, then I laughed, too.
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she said a lot of things which mean a lot to me and taught me a lot of things about the road i'm walking which helped shape me into the person i am today.
she always will be a second mother to me, and i regret having not spent more time with her.
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"I thought that I'd be discussing trains with Traci shortly- in person"
We're all richer for having known her.
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