"Cheryl" > wrote:
> "skeeter" > wrote:
>>
>> my old housekeepers kid tried to hang himself off a bridge and managed to
>> live the next 7 years as a quadriplegic. what a ****ing idiot.
>
> When I was about 25 I lost a good friend to suicide who was about 18. He
> was like a little brother to me.

Gee, that would be like me palling around with you and you're 25, my taking
you to the movies, hanging at the mall buying you stuff and my telling
folks you're like a daughter to me... who on this newsgroup do you think,
besides the Ozarks crowd, would believe me?

>The day he hanged himself, he tried to talk to me but I was busy with my
>boyfriend at that time, and I pretty much blew him off. His death haunted
>me for the longest time because I never saw any sign of depression in him.
>Never saw it coming. I wondered if there was something I missed. I hated
>myself for not having time for him that day.

Hmm, I doubt it was just "time" you didn't have for him that day.

Seven years is a big difference at those ages. When a 25 year old female is
good friends with an 18 year old male you can bet your bippee that the
attraction moved way beyond sibling/platonic, at least in his mind... you
had to be asleep or didn't really consider him the good friend he considered
you. I'd be curious to know how long you considered him a good friend (it
takes a year or more before people can move beyond aquaintence to friend,
and even longer to become *good* friends) because a mature woman has no
business being chummy with a young teenage boy lest there's hanky panky
going on... were the ages reversed and he went around telling folks he
considered you like his [loving] "little sister" more than eyebrows would
have been raised. So are you making up a typical usenet *I can top your
story* fairytale or are you just another child molester in our midst? If
you were good friends (or even just aquaintences) for even three months
there's no way I'd believe you weren't in that boy's pants. So how old was
the boyfriend you were cavorting with at the time of that frantic phone
call, fourteen? I'm sure you miss a lot, you're not very perceptive. I
feel sorry for that 18 year old but I don't believe it occured (if it
occured) as you related it... I'm hoping you're lying.