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Empty Places
By: Mark Morgan on 12/26/2005; 4:21 PM

I told Sean McMains that I'd like to take 2005 out behind the barn and shoot it. The end of the year has been a very bad time. MJ had a very difficult October, and we both had a really hard November. November was one of the worst months of my whole life. I'm very glad it's no longer November 2005.

Now December comes and the universe has decided to play billiards with the lives of our distant friends. On Sunday, December 18, 2005 a diesel truck traveling 144kph (89.5 mph) struck our English friend Rae in the side of her car. At the time she was pregnant with twins. She has pulled out okay but it's going to be two weeks until she can leave the hospital. And she and her husband now have two funerals to plan.

Harlan Ellison likes to quote my favorite prayer. This is for Rae and Dylan:

May God walk between you and harm in all the empty places you must go.

We love you both.

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RE: Empty Places
By: Brian Webber on 12/27/2005; 1:46 PM

2005 has been a pretty crappy year for everyone I've noticed. I've said a few times before elsewhere that maybe Green Day should've titled that song Wake Me Up When 2005 Ends. Thank goodness it'll all be over soon though. :-( This is not a year I'll look back on fondly.

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RE: Empty Places
By: Chie Theresa Fujioka on 2/5/2006; 12:25 AM

yeah, i'm glad 2005 is over... september too... and that song.

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