Sue Dodson
Oct. 11th, 2005 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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My Aunt Sue died last night in a car accident. That's almost the entirety of what I know right now. She was a really warm, loving, fun, special lady, and I always made a point to visit her and my uncle when I was in the Bay area (which was more often that I would have liked for a while, but not quite often enough in the last year or so). She lived in a little town uphill from Santa Cruz, on the edge of a redwood forest, and it was a fine time just to go walking and talking with them in the company of those giants. I'd been planning on going out for Aikido Fall Camp in SF in mid-November, but now I'm thinking I'll be going out for the memorial service instead.I came home this evening to an answering machine message from my mother, saying "call me." Just that - just "call me - almost never a good sign. Our parents are all firmly in their 70's, and I'm starting to dread getting that call. It's hardly easier, not much of a relief, when it's not one of them, but Mom's younger sister. I don't mind the thought of dying myself, but losing others is hard.
Ironically, this picture was taken last year at my grandparents' grave site, during a family reunion in Wisconsin.
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Date: 2005-10-12 04:14 am (UTC)Damn, I just wish I could help better, or give you a hug in real life right now.
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Date: 2005-10-12 12:41 pm (UTC)I've had enough experiences to have suspicion that such folk don't completely disappear, even if we can't call them up or give them another physical hug.
Samhain is coming; we'll keep her in mind.
[more hugs]
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Date: 2005-10-12 03:27 pm (UTC)I'm really sorry to hear that. :-(
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