"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> "brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>> "Cheryl" > wrote:
>>> "skeeter" > wrote:
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>>>> my old housekeepers kid tried to hang himself off a bridge and managed
>>>> to live the next 7 years as a quadriplegic. what a ****ing idiot.
>>>
>>> When I was about 25 I lost a good friend to suicide who was about 18.
>>> He was like a little brother to me.
>>
>> Gee, that would be like me palling around with you and you're 25, my
>> taking you to the movies, hanging at the mall buying you stuff and my
>> telling folks you're like a daughter to me... who on this newsgroup do
>> you think, besides the Ozarks crowd, would believe me?
>>
>>>The day he hanged himself, he tried to talk to me but I was busy with my
>>>boyfriend at that time, and I pretty much blew him off. His death
>>>haunted me for the longest time because I never saw any sign of
>>>depression in him. Never saw it coming. I wondered if there was
>>>something I missed. I hated myself for not having time for him that day.
>>
>> Hmm, I doubt it was just "time" you didn't have for him that day.
>>
>> Seven years is a big difference at those ages. When a 25 year old female
>> is good friends with an 18 year old male you can bet your bippee that the
>> attraction moved way beyond sibling/platonic, at least in his mind... you
>> had to be asleep or didn't really consider him the good friend he
>> considered you. I'd be curious to know how long you considered him a
>> good friend (it takes a year or more before people can move beyond
>> aquaintence to friend, and even longer to become *good* friends) because
>> a mature woman has no business being chummy with a young teenage boy lest
>> there's hanky panky going on... were the ages reversed and he went around
>> telling folks he considered you like his [loving] "little sister" more
>> than eyebrows would have been raised. So are you making up a typical
>> usenet *I can top your story* fairytale or are you just another child
>> molester in our midst? If you were good friends (or even just
>> aquaintences) for even three months there's no way I'd believe you
>> weren't in that boy's pants. So how old was the boyfriend you were
>> cavorting with at the time of that frantic phone call, fourteen? I'm
>> sure you miss a lot, you're not very perceptive. I feel sorry for that
>> 18 year old but I don't believe it occured (if it occured) as you related
>> it... I'm hoping you're lying.
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> Not everyone thinks like you do. We were long time family friends.
Yeah, right... kissing cousins. LOL