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People you didn't know were dead until years later...and were gutted
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A guy I lived with for 2 years throughout college and my first proper job.
I found out this year that he died of a heart issue the previous year.
Here are two lovely memories I have:
One night I came in all teary-eyed and 21 from a guy letting me down. W was up and said 'we need to talk'. He got me a glass of water and 2 paracetamol, and sat me down at one side of the table and him at the other - to give me the "talk about boys" at 21 years of age
In that conversation, he told me it would get easier. He told me how highly he thought of me and I just needed to believe in myself. That boys would come and go, but that self-belief who get me through the worst of storms.
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When I got my first graduate job, no-one made a massive deal about it except for him. He nailed down on what my future prospects would be and told me how proud he was of me. I never had a Dad. But in that house-share, I had W.
Some nights he'd yell at us for coming in too late from Flannerys and making noise..but isn't that what all good house-dads do?
And then he moved out and we lost touch, and he became a real Dad. And I bet he was the most wonderful father in the world.
And then he passed away. And I wish he didn't. I wish I knew him more in the months before he died.
And, for his beautiful wife and child, I wish he hadn't died at all.
RIP, my good friend. For a time, you were.0 -
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A guy I lived with for 2 years throughout college and my first proper job.
I found out this year that he died of a heart issue the previous year.
Here are two lovely memories I have:
One night I came in all teary-eyed and 21 from a guy letting me down. W was up and said 'we need to talk'. He got me a glass of water and 2 paracetamol, and sat me down at one side of the table and him at the other - to give me the "talk about boys" at 21 years of age In that conversation, he told me it would get easier. He told me how highly he thought of me and I just needed to believe in myself. That boys would come and go, but that self-belief who get me through the worst of storms.
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When I got my first graduate job, no-one made a massive deal about it except for him. He nailed down on what my future prospects would be and told me how proud he was of me. I never had a Dad. But in that house-share, I had W.
Some nights he'd yell at us for coming in too late from Flannerys and making noise..but isn't that what all good house-dads do?
And then he moved out and we lost touch, and he became a real Dad. And I bet he was the most wonderful father in the world.
And then he passed away. And I wish he didn't. I wish I knew him more in the months before he died.
And, for his beautiful wife and child, I wish he hadn't died at all.
RIP, my good friend. For a time, you were.
Im not able for this sorry to hear bout your friend
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Outlaw Pete wrote: »Yeah, how could you not know that....... only took me 16 years as I found out last year :P
He was a legend. Used to love those Ernest movies too.
From Wiki:
I knew that Jim Varney had passed away but am taken aback at how young he was, only 50 when he died!
I'd have thought he was well in his 60's.
Just goes to show what cigarettes will do to a person.
(P.S. "Ernest Scared Stupid" was a damn good children's horror film, genuinely creepy ) 0 -
John Ritter.
Recently Comedy Central were continually running promo's for a show called '8 Simple Rules'.
It seemed like a brand new show, your typical canned laughter sitcom.
Starred John Ritter. I remembered him from Three's Company and Googled him to see what shows/films he'd done since out of curiosity.
Thing was '8 Simple Rules' ran from 2002 to 2003 and John Ritter has been dead since 2003.
I had no idea he was dead. 0 -
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The Land Before Time was one of my favourite films as a kid, wore the VHS tape out I watched it so many times.
Found out years later that the voice actress (Judith Barsi) behind the character Ducky was murdered while she was a child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi
Utterly horrific occurrence. Poor little kid. I knew her from her voicing the little girl in 'All Dogs Go To Heaven' which I loved as a kid.0 -
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Thing was '8 Simple Rules' ran from 2002 to 2003 and John Ritter has been dead since 2003.
I had no idea he was dead.
Yep, I think I only started watching "8 Simple Rules" in the mid noughties, so chances are John was dead before I'd ever heard of him :eek:
Couldn't believe it when I read it earlier this year.0 -
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