Posted by barbs (post) on September 3, 2008, 10:27 pm
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hello everyone. my best friend (since 1952 eighth grade) has died of cancer.her name is barbara also. we were known as b&b inc. we sign everything to each other that way to this day. and we are 70 years old. she died of lung cancer. fought like a champ. i am so weary of cancer. just as all of you are. when does this horrible disease end. all the money raised to find cures and we are still losing our friends and families and our own lives.
thank you for having this grief space. i can't think of anyone else to talk to who would understand as all of you do. that girl was fuuuunnnny. we were spending the night together as teenage girls when she told me that old joke "have you read the book, The Yellow Road. by I. P. Freely.". we were up until dawn. laughing.then she hit me with "the open kimono". by Symore Hair.
we double dated. went to the beach everyday during that first summer after we met in junior high. dreamed about the high school friends of my brother. listened to Wolf Man Jack late at night. took the screen out of her bedroom window after her parents were asleep so we could hang half way out the window to smoke cigarettes that we snuck from our mom's. hanging out in our baby doll night gowns.
sorry to be such a bore. i am just so sad.
thanks. barbs
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