Thank you for holding an umbrella for me. I have tears in my eyes thinking of this, I'll help hold umbrellas too for us all.

This morning I walked through the park my friend and I visited earlier this month.

My friend was horrendously abused as a child and I think in a way she was murdered by her perpetrator, she never fully recovered.

I'm so fortunate that somehow I myself have my soul back from my own horrible childhood, I've survived and am now able to thrive.

But this surely sucks. We knew this was probably coming but there was no way to prepare for it. Her death affects so many people. We didn't do anything wrong and we did the best we could.