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hkellickK isn't home. By the looks of her last post, and how late she left, she may not be home for a while.
The good news is... I, personally, lost no one in the crash. All my family is safe. All my friends. The plane crashed a mile from K's grandma's house, which... is all sorts of freaky, but everyone is fine.
The bad news is.. it looks, now, like two brothers, an old acquaintance and one good friend have lost someone they knew and cared about in it. It's hard to not be kinda depressed and blah about that fact. 50 people, total.. and yet.. Buffalo's small enough someone is at least one or two connections from someone who died.
It really brings home how small a community Buffalo is. We may be a city, but in a lot of ways, we're more of a small town. Not to say we all know each other, but the connections run deep and... I mean... like I said above.. 50 people died on that plane and I've already have four connections.
M is a wreck. I called him up. I didn't know what to say. You can only say "I'm sorry" so many times. Mostly, I just tried to listen. By the looks of Facebook, J is no longer faring much better.
I think... I'm somewhere in between shocked and upset. J's friend, the one J is upset about.. was the cantor who did his bar mitzva. M is unluckier... his connection was a good 'friend'.
I may be here, safe and sound in Northern Virginia, but tonight I mourn with the city I grew up with...
The good news is... I, personally, lost no one in the crash. All my family is safe. All my friends. The plane crashed a mile from K's grandma's house, which... is all sorts of freaky, but everyone is fine.
The bad news is.. it looks, now, like two brothers, an old acquaintance and one good friend have lost someone they knew and cared about in it. It's hard to not be kinda depressed and blah about that fact. 50 people, total.. and yet.. Buffalo's small enough someone is at least one or two connections from someone who died.
It really brings home how small a community Buffalo is. We may be a city, but in a lot of ways, we're more of a small town. Not to say we all know each other, but the connections run deep and... I mean... like I said above.. 50 people died on that plane and I've already have four connections.
M is a wreck. I called him up. I didn't know what to say. You can only say "I'm sorry" so many times. Mostly, I just tried to listen. By the looks of Facebook, J is no longer faring much better.
I think... I'm somewhere in between shocked and upset. J's friend, the one J is upset about.. was the cantor who did his bar mitzva. M is unluckier... his connection was a good 'friend'.
I may be here, safe and sound in Northern Virginia, but tonight I mourn with the city I grew up with...
