Jill

[manoah]

So it's been almost a week since I heard the news and I'm still processing. I've known Jill since I was 15 years old and I'm 56. She was only 64, so just 8 years older than me. *sigh*

I haven't heard any other news, but I found a copy of her will in my files and see that I'm the executor if her sister is incapable. Her sister is flying (or has flown) in from Germany and she will be fine. The whole thing is just surreal.

I met Jill when I was a sophomore in high school and she was my shorthand teacher. We've been friends ever since. I know that I'm getting to "that" age and these things will be happening, but the first one is always the hardest...I guess.

I keep going over, in my mind, all the things we did together, all the fun times we had. All the times we went out and got trashed and then stayed up half the night yakking, falling asleep on her couch (her house was bigger). It's so hard to think that she is gone.

Thank you all for your kind words. I really appreciate my online friends as much as I cherish my real life friends (and sometimes those crossover!).

Bless you all.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I really do understand - first 'D from Skye', i.e. dougalsservant, and then a couple of months ago my equally long term friend Anne was killed in a climbing accident. And it is so hard to think of them not being there, it really doesn't feel real.

[manoah.livejournal.com]

It doesn't. I don't know that it ever gets easier.