It is not supposed to happen this way.....
Rachel died last night.
Her 6 yr old found her stone cold on the floor. I guess they will figure out what happened with an autopsy in Augusta. But it was her heart...that smoking and the swollen ankles to name just a few tell tale signs. She leaves behind Abby (6), Zach (16), Caitlan (18). You do the math. She died at 34, ran away from home at age 16, married and had 3 kids by an alcoholic husband she never divorced from...live in boy friend (best friends at one time with her husband) who has truly been Mr. Mom. Her mother got the news as she herself lies dying in stage 4 lung and brain cancer. It's not supposed to happen this way. Rachel was tireless working several jobs at once....doing everything to hold her family together. Now she finally rests...
I can say that she showed me life on the other side of the tracks. How do you get by on such little money? How do you piece together parts into a puzzle to somehow make things work on every level? The signs were there about her health. She just never tried to put those parts of the puzzle into the works. I who have lived the middle class lifestyle tried to help with the family, the rent, the car bills, food cards--whatever to say that I was in her corner rooting her on.
My yesterday's post could not have been more prophetic from John Updike...
And another regrettable thing about
death
is the ceasing of your own brand of
magic,
which took a whole life to develop
and market--
the whole act--
who will do it again?
That's it:
no imitators and descendents are the same.
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