Boychild (3457 hits)
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Rating: 1.96 on 140 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Circe <fickle.muse.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-02-17 07:06:46 EST
Please come with me. There's someone I want you to meet. Be quiet, though; try not to disturb her. She's had a bit of a rough time here in this small white room, and she's suffered more than she ever dreamed she could while being screened by those pastel curtains.
There. See her. Look at her. She's hugging herself as though she's the last person in the world and her eyes are dead. Grey as stone and as cold as ice and about as dead as the child in the bassinet beside her bed.
She's moving. Not much, just one hand. Just the slow drowning swimmer movement of her head turning to look into the bassinet. Long piano player fingers reach out and touch a bruised cold cheek and she smiles, ghastly and empty and desperate, and she starts to sing a nonsensical crooning lullaby.
We shouldn't watch this. Come out into the hallway with me and I'll tell you a little about her. No, come out.. it's indecent to watch her grieve this way.
Okay. Take a seat.. these chairs are pretty comfortable. People spend a lot of time sitting in these hallways, waiting for their daughters and sisters and wives to be rational, to be okay. Coffee okay? Good.
That girl is seventeen. She's a foolish girl in a lot of ways; she still believes that love will conquer all, that the world is a good place, and that nothing really bad can ever happen. She's bright - I'm not saying she's stupid. But that damned romantic heart of hers misleads her a lot of the time.
She's got a guy, a live-in boyfriend. That's him, down the end of the hall, sleeping in the TV lounge. They're too young for this, too naive, but he's not left her side in a week.
And it's the same old story. They fell in love and she got knocked up because the pill was a dud that day or the condom broke or for whatever reason.. little girl, big choice, only it wasn't one. She's in love and she's gonna have this baby, and be a Mummy, and play happy families with her guy and all's gonna be well. Foolish girl, like I said.. but sweet.
So they did what you do. Doctor's visits, bought a cot and a pram and a car seat, the clothes and toys and she's been reading parenting books for five months. She's really giving it her best shot, and you know, they probably could have made it work. She's foolish, but she's damned stubborn.
The bleeding started four nights ago. They went to the hospital, and then they transferred her to THIS hospital, and they tried to stop the labour but the cramps kept coming and that boy of hers.. that boy wanted out.
The odds on a 26 week birth living aren't great, but they're there. It doeas happen. So they cut open her teenager's belly and took out the boychild and rushed him downstairs to a big plastic box with air and tubes and her, her, they took to Recovery.
After two hours they came to see her and they explained things gently, and kindly, and with that awful irrevocable finality of doctors. The boychild was damaged, her boychild had had a tube pushed too hard into his lung and her boychild was on a machine but it needed to be turned off and would she like to come and say goodbye?
They wheeled her down in her bed and she held that boy of hers and she told him the thousand things she was never gonna get to tell him again, and they smiled with gentle eyes and she nodded and they turned off the machines.
And now we come back to this corridor, outside that room, where she still sings to him and she still thinks she can see him move. They bring him to her whenever she asks, and she doesn't much care that his eyes never opened, or that his face is bruised from the tape and the tubes, and she doesn't care that she's crooning to a dead body because in all honesty, she doesn't quite know he's dead.
Yet.
In a few minutes though, we're going to hear this sound like a broken beaten animal screaming for release, for death, and nurses are gonna come running because she knows now, something in that room, in that bassinet, in the cold blue lifeless body she's held against her for three days has finally broken through and she's never going to be quite the same again.
We can go now. We should go before that sound starts because I don't want to hear it. It hurts to hear it.
I just wanted to show you.
User Reviews
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2008-04-16 17:12:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Have you read "House of Leaves"?
If not, you really should.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-04-17 17:31:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-10 14:36:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
needs one more
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-10 14:33:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-03-10 14:25:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I did read this the first time round but BAMF linked it and I reread it so +2 for you.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-02-24 02:21:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by TheMidnight12AM (user info) at 2005-02-24 00:12:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by SpikeGoddess (user info) at 2005-02-22 03:05:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-02-21 22:38:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I just got this horrifying and yet somehow strangely arousing image of Shlongy pulling an apology out of his ass.
HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-21 19:16:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Sorry about that, HadToBeDone...I may have misinterpreted your comment.
That's the first and last time anyone will get an apology out of MY ass.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-02-21 18:59:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Even I've seen the "non-ass" Shlongy from time to time.
Never on something of mine, but on someone elses posts.
And, (how the fuck am I saying this) if that Shlongy came out more often, I might not despise him so fucking much.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-02-21 14:55:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I don't see how that was a slam on you, Shlongy, just that for a moment there, I saw you as something other than the asshole act you throw around on here. I don't see how that's a bad thing, but I apologize if you see it as a sign of weakness....
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-21 13:36:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Fuck you, Hadtobedone. It's not a facade.
I need a lecture from some fat broad with major insecurity issues on "how to rate a post"?
"Well, if everyone else loves it, I'D better love it too, or I'm wrong."
Fuck that. Fuck her. Fuck you. Fuck off.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-02-21 13:26:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm not sure that the overall piece is +2-worthy, from my preferences on writing, but being able to write about such an event could be the hardest thing in the world. Especially to write without anger or rancor.
And this whole Shlongy/lojo thing is about a streak? Somehow I doubt a streak or "best ever" means shit in this case...both of you need to get beyond it, and fast. I also see right through Shlongy's tough guy, asshole facade....
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-02-21 11:26:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
SOMEBODY RATE THIS POST!!
CIRCE GETS IGNORED!!!
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:45:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
What can i say that hasn't already been said?
Brilliant, touching yet not cliched.
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2005-02-20 18:17:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
poor circe, yet another post with zero feedback
Submitted by Zod (user info) at 2005-02-20 16:59:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Amazing writing.
Submitted by Kopesh (user info) at 2005-02-20 04:30:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
huh......huh
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2005-02-20 00:14:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Very nice, excellent as a matter of fact.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2005-02-19 23:08:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
=(
See look I feel sad.
Submitted by Dannie (user info) at 2005-02-19 21:16:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Pepsi (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:58:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-19 04:21:27 (#)
Ranking: 0
George Carlin.
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Damn, kid, you could have let a low rated user snag this one. But fair is fair, Circe.
Submitted by Ka (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:35:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Fleury75 (user info) at 2005-02-19 16:29:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
krikey!
Submitted by Calios (user info) at 2005-02-19 02:40:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i have no words
Submitted by WhoLetYouIn (user info) at 2005-02-19 01:00:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Freight_Train (user info) at 2005-02-18 20:47:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Whats all this damn fuss about?
its ok, B-
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-02-18 18:28:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by no_i_dont_wanna_watch_u_wank (user info) at 2005-02-18 16:57:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-02-18 14:01:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-18 12:26:49 (#)
Ranking: 0
Shlongy - nope. But if Lojope did, that's her prerogative. I respect your right to have an opinion. I respect her right to have an opinion. I respect everybody's right to everything but at the end of the day, e'body blames me.
Hold me until the anger fades, Shlongy.
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*shudder*
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-02-18 13:33:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
no comment.
Submitted by whataefag (user info) at 2005-02-18 13:06:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
oh wow, jarvis cocker/scott walker rip off. nice. cute. and well done.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-18 13:02:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
OK, baby.
I guess she just needed the attention. JG's mini-shlong just isn't cutting the proverbial mustard for that attention starved windbag.
Submitted by Badlands (user info) at 2005-02-18 12:45:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-18 12:26:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Shlongy - nope. But if Lojope did, that's her prerogative. I respect your right to have an opinion. I respect her right to have an opinion. I respect everybody's right to everything but at the end of the day, e'body blames me.
Hold me until the anger fades, Shlongy.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-18 12:03:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Circe- Did you have a problem with my first "review" and rating?
Lojope, the nosy cuntbag seems to think that you did.
I wish "Ms. RapeVictim", 1995-2005 inclusive, would mind her own goddamn business.
She's stupid enough to think I consciously try and "break streaks"...like I, or anyone, gives a shit about a "streak". (And if you DO care about ratings or a streak in UberSite, you have more problems than I care to even think about).
I'd like to cockslap the fat cow.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-02-18 10:55:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Shmeddie (user info) at 2005-02-18 10:37:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
After lurking for over a month, I had to register just to rate this. <bows to master>
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2005-02-18 10:09:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2005-02-18 09:59:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Rocktsrgn (user info) at 2005-02-18 09:00:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I just reread this, and I'm crying.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2005-02-18 08:40:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh Circe...
I don't know what to say.
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2005-02-18 06:45:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
whooo titties!
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2005-02-18 06:26:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Why didn't I read this sooner?
This may be due to lack of sleep, but I think that there is a subliminal (if not eerie or morose) beauty in this piece. I can't put my finger on it, but I can feel it there.
But enough about my penis. (Rimshot har har)
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-02-18 05:57:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I feel sick.
Incredible
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2005-02-18 05:56:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
you spent THREE DAYS with the dead body? is that unusual?
the screaming you mention reminds me of the sound my neighbour made when his pregnant wife died of a seizure in the middle of the night. i have never heard a sound like it since.
he was a nice, decent fellow. i wonder whatever happened to him and his daughter, who was about 7 when it happened.
Submitted by Demolocke (user info) at 2005-02-18 01:08:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2005-02-18 00:34:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Boychild (1000 hits)
cool
Submitted by lizzard (user info) at 2005-02-17 23:17:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-02-17 22:57:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
* sigh * I've got nothing to say that would be worth anything.
Submitted by peckerhead (user info) at 2005-02-17 22:50:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Rocktsrgn (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:05:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
Circe,
It's the least that you can do it a situation like that. Treat the child like a person, and never discount the grief.
Your boy was most likely a beautiful child.
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I agree with this. Grieving is extremely important - and necessary. It may not happen immediately; it may happen in waves; but it will happen. Let it happen. Maybe sharing this story with us is one of your early stages of grieving. I'm sorry.
Submitted by Chinaski (user info) at 2005-02-17 21:01:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
fuck you shlongy, you insensitive asshole.
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2005-02-17 20:50:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Too.
Fucking.
Good.
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2005-02-17 20:36:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yes, you did, Shlongy, and the fact that you don't see it says a lot. You don't enjoy anything, except breaking streaks and causing trouble, and yet you continue to read and rate as if you were a legitimate user. The day I see a Shlongy review that's actually worth anything is the day I'll make a snowball in hell.
I don't start shit on every post. I did, however, do it on this post because you piss me off. I don't want to continue arguing here, though, because this story is above that shit. Fuck you for even giving me cause in the first place.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-02-17 20:21:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Interesting story, I'm actually glad I can't relate to it because I never want to have to.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-17 20:10:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I didn't disrespect jackshit, Lojope, you nosy cuntball.
I didn't enjoy it and still gave a +1 for her writing skill.
Learn to read.
Then, shut the fuck up.
Christ, you start shit in every fucking post, you twisted fuckup.
Submitted by EPatrick (user info) at 2005-02-17 20:10:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was very well written and all, but I gotta admint it hit far too close to home and now I'm trying to straighten up. Me and my young girlfriend are pregnant with a 'surprise,' and she just so happens to be at 26 weeks. It sends chills down my spines.
Great writing, very personal. That's good.
Submitted by AmyRose (user info) at 2005-02-17 19:57:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i'm a lurker, i can't write at all - i never, ever review, and today i'm reviewing because this made me cry. thank you.
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2005-02-17 19:54:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, please, Shlongy, it had nothing to do with sticking up for Circe. She's a big girl and doesn't need my help. It had to do with the thoughtless and heartless nature of your reply to a topic and post like this. Some things ought to be kept sacred, no matter how much you get your sick little jollies by disrespecting and defacing exactly those things.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-02-17 19:49:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I find this heartwrenching and eery and somehow strangely beautiful.
Your last two posts have been nothing less than incredible.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-02-17 19:21:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-17 18:19:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Lojo- I'll give you your chance to do just that sometime. I'll also slap around that boyfriend of yours like a pinata, just for chuckles.
In the meantime, go fuck yourself.
Circe is a big girl- she can fight her own battles. She does so very well.
Unfortunately for you, this wasn't a battle, you nosy dipshit.
Submitted by Smurfs (user info) at 2005-02-17 18:03:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
w00t
Submitted by RamJetMax (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:52:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:41:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
please, have my children (I cleared it through Stin, so it's all good ;-) )
This post was just fucking incredible. Wow, just wow.
Submitted by satchel (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:40:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No words.
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:23:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2005-02-17 15:38:09 (#)
Ranking: 2
If I ever meet Shlongy in person I will rip off his genitals and make him eat them.
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Hey Lojo, want to go Shlongy hunting? I'm up for it.
Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:20:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
DAMN
Submitted by transhuman (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:20:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Mr.JackassFrost (user info) at 2005-02-17 17:06:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Uh........ Uh...........
Aw fuck it have a plus two. I'm at a loss for words.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-17 16:55:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2005-02-17 15:38:09 (#)
Ranking: 2
If I ever meet Shlongy in person I will rip off his genitals and make him eat them. I understand his desperate need to be a shit-stirrer and make people angry and the whole negative attention is better than no attention at all thing, but for fuck's sake there is a place where it's acceptable and a place where it isn't.
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He didn't stir shit, did he? He said do me.
There is no line to cross. Just yours.
Submitted by lessthanfour (user info) at 2005-02-17 16:46:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Bang.
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2005-02-17 15:38:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
If I ever meet Shlongy in person I will rip off his genitals and make him eat them. I understand his desperate need to be a shit-stirrer and make people angry and the whole negative attention is better than no attention at all thing, but for fuck's sake there is a place where it's acceptable and a place where it isn't.
This should be at the top of the best ever list.
Submitted by tidalfae (user info) at 2005-02-17 15:27:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
too much to say
Submitted by screamfeeder (user info) at 2005-02-17 15:20:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-17 14:53:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
well done
Submitted by precision (user info) at 2005-02-17 14:05:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm sorry that a +2 is all that I can do for you. Hopefully, time has helped to heal this wound. Makes me want to go and check my boy out of school and spend a little time at the park or somthing.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2005-02-17 14:02:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:44:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by girlintheworld (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:30:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm so so so sorry.
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:14:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2005-02-17 11:37:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
Touching. Im at a loss for words.
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Agreed
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:05:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'll think of an appropriate comment as soon as I can stop crying.
Submitted by Draqus (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:05:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:59:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:47:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You are one of the blessed, Lyn. You are blessed because you feel. Life and experience...pain and suffering...smiles and laughter... You feel it all so deeply. For this you are blessed. Having the capacity for emotion will always come with side effects - but I would trade a thousand unexamined lifetimes for one of yours, because you feel, and because you're real...
Thanks for being real, and thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:46:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:24:28 (#)
Ranking: 1
Do me.
_________
That's fair.
Submitted by alwaysoutnumbered (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:44:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Touching. i love you.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:24:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Do me.
Submitted by engine13 (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:23:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was extremely moving.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:17:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:12:34 (#)
Ranking: 1
This is too painful to finish.
Don't you have any "happy thoughts"?
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Shlongy, ya twat. This is called 'diversity'. See, every now and then, I run out of smutty poetry, sexual innuendo, and stories about me being a lunatic and decide, just for shits and giggles, to be honest for, oh, a day.
I have a shitload of happy thoughts and if you ever read any of my lighter stuff rather than responding with "do me".... your head would implode and the sky would fall.
Never mind. Carry on.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:12:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:15:42 (#)
Ranking: 2
I wish I could reach inside and take the pain for you.
I love you, Lynnie.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:12:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
This is too painful to finish.
Don't you have any "happy thoughts"?
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:09:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-02-17 11:58:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
<wipes a tear away>
this gave me goose bumps. this post if perfection.
i was in the ER once with my exbf and they brought a baby in who had stopped
breathing. 10 minutes after they came in the mother let out a wail.
we werein the next room and could only assume what that sound meant.
it was the saddest most heartbreaking sound i have ever heard.
Submitted by thaumaturge (user info) at 2005-02-17 11:48:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow... Thankyou
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2005-02-17 11:37:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Touching. Im at a loss for words.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2005-02-17 10:58:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-02-17 10:50:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2005-02-17 10:42:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2005-02-17 10:30:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh my God this pissed me off.
"Why the hell would she write this?" I asked myself.
Then I read the reviews.
True story.
Oh man. I am sooooo so so sorry. I have tears in my eyes as I write this.
You must be the strongest person in the world, because, quite simply, I would have died.
Oh man. I'm just so sorry. I can't imagine that it did, but I hope writing this helped, if even a little.
Damn. Words are really pointless sometimes, aren't they?
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:39:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by bigbabylons (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:33:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by A_D_Sweetmeat (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:33:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm moved...and it takes a lot.
Sorry for your loss.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:26:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Circe, I gotta ask, how can you hit both extremes in less than 12 hours?
Made me laugh my tail off last night chattering, and now you make me wanna curl up in a ball and sob.
PLUS
FUCKING
TWO
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:20:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Now it's my turn to cry over a post. I'm so sorry Circe.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:19:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I love you Lynnie.
I think I need to take a walk after reading this....
Exceptionally written.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:16:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:15:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I am sorry for your loss.
Thank you for letting us in.
I was recently working on a post written from me to the child that my high school girlfriend aborted without my knowledge but after reading this I now think it will be crap.
Brava!
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:15:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Rocktsrgn (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:53:34 (#)
Ranking: 2
I used to work with parents who went through this. I used to dress their children so they could have the goodbye.
God, it's a hard thing.
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You get a +2 too. I never even considered that such a job would exist... You're truly remarkable for being able to do it.
Submitted by 1Point21Gigawatts (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:11:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:10:18 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Rocktsrgn (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:05:47 EST (#)
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Circe,
It's the least that you can do it a situation like that. Treat the child like a person, and never discount the grief.
Your boy was most likely a beautiful child.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-02-17 09:01:20 EST (#)
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Boy. All these broken marriage, lost children posts are making me wanna go blow my head off. Think I'll enlist for Iraq or something. That's a happier place by far than Uber lately.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:57:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by Rocktsrgn (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:53:34 (#)
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I used to work with parents who went through this. I used to dress their children so they could have the goodbye.
God, it's a hard thing.
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I never thought about that... it seems impossible that I never thought of it. Every day after he died, every day when they brought him in, he'd be wearing something different and I never thought of who must be doing it...
Thank you.
Submitted by Rocktsrgn (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:53:34 EST (#)
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I used to work with parents who went through this. I used to dress their children so they could have the goodbye.
God, it's a hard thing.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:43:43 EST (#)
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Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:41:42 EST (#)
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Oh ... fuck. I am now officially depressed.
Also, get on MSN. Please?
Submitted by daveybwoy (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:40:26 EST (#)
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powerful
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:37:01 EST (#)
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I can't say anything that could ever do this justice.
*love*
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:30:22 EST (#)
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No comment.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:15:42 EST (#)
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I wish I could reach inside and take the pain for you.
I love you, Lynnie.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:09:20 EST (#)
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Oh, sweetheart. I'm so sorry.
Submitted by Jay_Bassman (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:08:09 EST (#)
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No comment... what can you possibly say to that. It scared me to think about it.
Submitted by stardamage (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:58:52 EST (#)
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Jesus Christ.
I don't think I could live through that, much less write about it, much less write about it so well like this.
I shivered.
Submitted by Awko (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:55:32 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:51:58 EST (#)
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Submitted by Durae (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:50:01 (#)
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I hope to god this is more fiction than reality.
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I wish to god it were too, but no... no fiction today.
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:51:35 EST (#)
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Apollo, if I could write like this I wouldn't be playing the sax for a living.
Circe, without doubt, rocks the planet.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:50:11 EST (#)
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You see, Lojope, Stin et al, this is how it should be done.
Almost cliche free. No 'single tear falling' etc.
Brafuckingvo.
Submitted by Durae (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:50:01 EST (#)
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I hope to god this is more fiction than reality. Really haunting.
and I like the sounds of an ubermatriarchy.
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:34:56 EST (#)
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..........and again
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:34:40 EST (#)
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.....and again
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:34:40 EST (#)
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"The boychild was damaged"
I'm completely speechless.
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:34:23 EST (#)
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I can quite honestly and unreservedly state that this is the best thing I have ever read in over a year here on Uber.
Fuck the guys, we should have an Uberchick night, but you'd all make me cry and I don't do that very often. Sideburns may be funny, Apollo might be witty, Shlongy might be...well, Shlongy but the Ubermatriarchy runs the heart of this place.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:29:54 EST (#)
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You are one hell of a writer and storyteller. As always, great job.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:27:06 EST (#)
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I love you.
And this made me whimper a bit.
Submitted by BigCore (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:25:16 EST (#)
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Brilliant.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:24:51 EST (#)
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Oh, Lord.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:22:20 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:20:21 EST (#)
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There is nothing I can say to you I haven't already darling.
All my love.