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One of my very best friends was killed early Sunday morning. He was 16. He was varsity pitcher on the baseball team. He was the happiest kid in the world. He was always trying to cheer me up. He was always the first one to visit me in the hospital and the first one to call me to see how I'm doing every day. He did all he could to brighten my mood. I always got a call or text from him every single day. Sunday came and went. Monday came and went. Then Tuesday got here and I was really worried. No texts or calls. No responses to my texts or calls. I knew there was a big party Saturday night and I knew he was going. I knew he was going, because he asked me to go with him. I told him no, that I didn't want to go because I didn't want to be around the alcohol that I knew was going to be there, and I told him I didn't think he should go either because I had a bad feeling about it. He text me throughout the night to let me know he was okay, until the texts stopped at about 3 in the morning. I was worried, but I just told myself that maybe he fell asleep. On Tuesday I found out through a message on facebook that Joey had been killed. I didn't want to believe it, so I looked his name up in the local newspapers website and found it... "Virginia Beach DUI claims life of 16-year-old, imprisons another" Joey's friend made the decision to drive drunk, and Joey made the decision to get in the car with him. Now he's gone and that makes two best friends in less than 6 months that are gone from my life.
Joey I love you. I hope you know that, wherever you are.
One of my very best friends was killed early Sunday morning. He was 16. He was varsity pitcher on the baseball team. He was the happiest kid in the world. He was always trying to cheer me up. He was always the first one to visit me in the hospital and the first one to call me to see how I'm doing every day. He did all he could to brighten my mood. I always got a call or text from him every single day. Sunday came and went. Monday came and went. Then Tuesday got here and I was really worried. No texts or calls. No responses to my texts or calls. I knew there was a big party Saturday night and I knew he was going. I knew he was going, because he asked me to go with him. I told him no, that I didn't want to go because I didn't want to be around the alcohol that I knew was going to be there, and I told him I didn't think he should go either because I had a bad feeling about it. He text me throughout the night to let me know he was okay, until the texts stopped at about 3 in the morning. I was worried, but I just told myself that maybe he fell asleep. On Tuesday I found out through a message on facebook that Joey had been killed. I didn't want to believe it, so I looked his name up in the local newspapers website and found it... "Virginia Beach DUI claims life of 16-year-old, imprisons another" Joey's friend made the decision to drive drunk, and Joey made the decision to get in the car with him. Now he's gone and that makes two best friends in less than 6 months that are gone from my life.
Joey I love you. I hope you know that, wherever you are.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
I'm thinking about what his surviving friend (the driver) is going through right now too.
What a terrible tragedy.
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R.I.P Logan G. you are missed.