When tragedy strikes it truely strikes in more ways than one!
December 5, 1986 was truely MY BLACK FRIDAY........This date will never be forgotten as this was the day my dad suddenly died from a massive heart attack shortly before 6:30 pm. It's amazing how death has no boundaries or rules and no warning signs for that matter. As in my case, I was sitting there carrying on a conversation with my dad one minute and come back into the room several minutes later and find him laying down on the couch, what appeared to be sleeping, but deceased.
Within a few days I received a phone call from the one person that meant the world to me. When Christa called to check on me after she had learned my dad had died, that meant the world to me. It also meant alot to me that after her dad found out about my dads passing that he went home and told her. Christa's family is truely wonderful!
After talking to Christa on the phone reality started to set in? I was never going to see Christa again since I would not be going on anymore Farm Bureau trips. I started thinking was this the end of us? Would we still keep in touch? Would we really see each other again one day. For the moment all I could think about was due to this tragedy it caused me to lose 2 of the 3 people that meant everything in the world to me.
After all I had gone through losing my dad, I would soon learn that I hadn't lost Christa. We continued to write back and forth and call one another every now and then.
December 5, 1986 was truely MY BLACK FRIDAY........This date will never be forgotten as this was the day my dad suddenly died from a massive heart attack shortly before 6:30 pm. It's amazing how death has no boundaries or rules and no warning signs for that matter. As in my case, I was sitting there carrying on a conversation with my dad one minute and come back into the room several minutes later and find him laying down on the couch, what appeared to be sleeping, but deceased.
Within a few days I received a phone call from the one person that meant the world to me. When Christa called to check on me after she had learned my dad had died, that meant the world to me. It also meant alot to me that after her dad found out about my dads passing that he went home and told her. Christa's family is truely wonderful!
After talking to Christa on the phone reality started to set in? I was never going to see Christa again since I would not be going on anymore Farm Bureau trips. I started thinking was this the end of us? Would we still keep in touch? Would we really see each other again one day. For the moment all I could think about was due to this tragedy it caused me to lose 2 of the 3 people that meant everything in the world to me.
After all I had gone through losing my dad, I would soon learn that I hadn't lost Christa. We continued to write back and forth and call one another every now and then.
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