Posted by friend on April 8, 2002, at 12:27:14
In reply to kid a-i absolutely believe you, too, posted by Krazy Kat on April 8, 2002, at 9:33:00
sorry, i didn't say more, i was really upset.
the whole story is that i used to come to the board a lot, but i'm shy, and i didn't know what to say, ever. so i just read everyone else's posts. i came to care ofr so many of you, but i didn't want to intrude, and i didn't know how to start a conversation on my own. i read sar's posts, among others and one day she posted her email address and i recognized it. so then i was afraid she would recognize me from what i would say. we knew each other because we both lived in the same co-operative system in austin, and we have a lot of mutual friends, but i never really knew her, just who she was. we said hi to each other and that's about it. we seemed like very different people on the surface. by the time i got to know her through here she had moved to san antonio. then she moved back here and i couldn't tell her that i knew her from this board. it would have been very awkward and i thought it would make her uncomfortable, knowing her as i did through the posts, i think it would have made her feel bad to know i knew so much about her.
i never met her current boyfriend, and have not seen her in person since last summer, but all i can say is that she was a wonderful person. i'm sorry that i didn't post sooner, and i'm sorry that i didn't let her know what an amazing person i thought she was.
i don't think that the obituary has been posted yet. there is to be a funeral service here in austin at a unitarian churh either tomorrow or wednesday. sar is going to be cremated. she did leave a note but i don't think the family has gotten together to read it yet, so i don't know what is going on there.
i hadn't come here in a while, because i felt awkward reading sar's posts once i knew who she was. it felt like reading her journal. but i still remembered all of you and how much you meant to her and how so many of you cared for her. that's why i came back to let you know what happened. i will keep checking back on this for awhile if anyone wants to know anything else.
i'm so sorry to have to bring this news.
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