Sinister: Out, out brief candle

[Will Porter]

Last night, a girl that I knew died.  She lived across the street from me
from 6th grade until we graduated high school.  She and I never really got
along, but our mothers are friends.  She was my age.  That's the first
thing my mother said after she told my sister:
 "She was Willy's age."  
My mother and some family members who were around when I was born still
call me Willy sometimes, especially when they're too busy with grief or
some other consuming feeling to think that I haven't really been called
Willy for quite some years.
She was on the way to a wedding when she died.  I couldn't help thinking
about the cruel juxtaposition of matrimonial joy and premature death.

It has been a bad week.
7 days ago, my nephews' grandfather (which is to say my sister's
father-in-law) also died.  2 days before that an old friend of my mother's
died.

I really haven't got anything to say about Belle and Sebastian.  I was
hoping that writing this down might make me feel a little less like I am
going to fall apart.

will

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