Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 1, 2011 8:37:51 GMT -6
Back around 2003, I met a woman on a horse forum who, turns out spent many summers at a resort in the next small village to the south of our farm. She and I had much in common; horses, knitting, loneliness...And struck up a friendship that spanned these next 8 years.
As time went by, I moved away from the area which was the original spark to light the flame of friendship. And a year ago, she made plans to move home to PA.
We finally met last May. We picked a town that was halfway to meet. It was just a few hours of lunch and shopping, but it was wonderful to put faces to the nicknames after all these years.
In January, her emails and online posts became fewer. I thought it was just due to an increase in Social activity with old friends. When you have realtime friends you don't need the web as much I suppose?
Hubs vacation came; we went on a trip. After returning home last week, I spent a few days playing catchup online and got to wondering why I hadn't heard from Suzi?? I checked her facebook page....First shock, then disbelief...She had a bout of flu in late January and it seems that she was never to recover from that. She passed on February 9, 2011.
Thousands of people pass through our lives here on the internet, but a few stay with us for eternity.
As time went by, I moved away from the area which was the original spark to light the flame of friendship. And a year ago, she made plans to move home to PA.
We finally met last May. We picked a town that was halfway to meet. It was just a few hours of lunch and shopping, but it was wonderful to put faces to the nicknames after all these years.
In January, her emails and online posts became fewer. I thought it was just due to an increase in Social activity with old friends. When you have realtime friends you don't need the web as much I suppose?
Hubs vacation came; we went on a trip. After returning home last week, I spent a few days playing catchup online and got to wondering why I hadn't heard from Suzi?? I checked her facebook page....First shock, then disbelief...She had a bout of flu in late January and it seems that she was never to recover from that. She passed on February 9, 2011.
Thousands of people pass through our lives here on the internet, but a few stay with us for eternity.
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