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Originally Posted by SittinOnDubsWGW
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Nothing I say will make any difference. Laura is gone. I knew her IRL.
It's one of those times that I would like to say say that I believe that she is in a better place and yadda yadda yadda. But a much I was her in real life friend and the rest of you were not, and I would like to say something snarky or profound, I don't have it. She's just gone and there's nothing left.
It doesn't mean I don't miss chatting her on IM, or visiting her up in the suburbs north of Detroit, or discussing jiu-jitsu techniques, or those early morning phone calls when she thought her husband was bat shit crazy and was going to kill her.
She was just a chick who was just trying to make her way through the world with out too many problems. But unfortunately she was married to the biggest problem she'd ever have. She ended up dying at the hands of her estranged husband, who had kicked her out of their home, a man more than twice her size who felt the need to shoot her nine times in the head with a .45 caliber pistol in a Chili's parking lot on April 20, 2008. Leaving behind 2 pre-teen kids.
I was relatively friendly with Laura and her husband. I had met her kids. I don't know what happened to the kids afterwards. I'm completely out of the loop since that time. I just wish them well. If I ever stumble across them, I'd let them know that their mom stayed in a situation that was dangerous to herself for a long time to preserve whatever sense of normalcy that family had. Even if it ultimately cost her life.