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Words cannot describe the emotional rollercoaster this has been, and continues to be. A few of you have met Sean and know what kind of young man he was. Two years ago today he was home as he had no classes on Friday, we played golf, went out to lunch and had our usual good time. He left our house that afternoon and left this world that night. No alcohol, no drugs, no texting or cell phone call--- just a bad accident. In a flash I lost my son and my best friend. I wish every father could have the relationship I had with him. We did so much together---I miss him so much.
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I wonder how people like yourself stay strong in the face of the emotional devastation that results in the loss of a child, the amount of psychological strength it takes must be enormous.
I hope and pray that you and your family continue to stay strong and are able to find some sense of peace in your day to day life.
It's really hard to convey over a message board how much admiration I have for people who can survive the loss of a child.
Take care."I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth." -
I am so sorry for your loss.Comment
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There really are no words. My thoughts are with you and yours.Comment
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Originally posted by umjewboy View Post
Agreed. I hope at some point your family finds peace. My heartgoes out to you.After former Broncos quarterback Brian Griese sprained his ankle and said he was tripped on the stairs of his home by his golden retriever, Bella: “The dog stood up on his hind legs and gave him a push? You might want to get rid of that dog, or put him in the circus, one of the two.”Comment
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Well said, Mith. I can't add anything to that other than my admiration for your strength in the face of such great loss.Originally posted by Mithrandir View PostI'm just here for the baseball.
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My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family too. I can't even imagine how I would feel if something happened to one of my daughters.Comment
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No parent should ever have to bury a child. You're likely a better man than I would be, faced with the same situation. Not that that can be any comfort. Stay strong."Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?"
"Certainly. You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!"Comment
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It's hard to believe it's been two years already. While I only met him that one time, the fact he went to my school and knew so much of what I knew, man..........
........I just keep thinking of that accident, "that poor kid, that poor f'ing kid." So much to have lost in an instant. And that phone call, cripes.....the only worse thing I've heard on this earth was my mother telling me I needed to rush down to Florida to say goodbye to my dad.
It's still too hard to believe. Sean, please keep your spirits up and at least know you had a wonderful child for those 21 years. There isn't any more I can say. It's heartbreaking, and as the father of soon to be three sons, I can't even begin to imagine losing a son just as he's about to enter the prime of his life. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family during this unbelievably trying time.Comment
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Wonderful words all.
But I also say let's plan a RJ get-together for June that will be about both loss AND about life.
The Irish are good at that.
Even people who lose loved ones way too young are entitled to enjoy a night out with a bunch of dorks from a fantasy baseball website...finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
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this made me cry. literally. i have 12 and 10 year old sons and can't even imagine...
chin up, as they say, and you've done well at it so far."Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" Albert HofmannComment
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Grinch/Sean--It's stories like these that make me treasure the relationships I have with my daughters all the more. I often wonder (well not often, but occasionally) if I could go on if something should happen to one or both my girls. I can only hope I'd be as strong as you have and unquestionably--you have my heart in this.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Comment
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I appreciate your strength -- it must be a battle everyday to keep grinding on, but i applaud you for doing it. I wish you all the best.Comment
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I have three daughters and like many others here I can't even imagine going through what you went through, Grinch.
However, I was on the other side as a young man who was with his father one day and the next he was killed in an auto accident and it's been 27 years and I still think about him every day. The pain and the loss will always be with you, but as you continue to remember the great relationship that you had with him (like I do my Dad) it always makes it a little better.
God Bless, my friend.Comment
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I love this. Your loss is incalculable and your strength in the face of that loss is overwhelming. But it's crystal clear how much love and joy you experienced together and that's eternal.Originally posted by Grinch View PostComment
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