"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "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.

Not everyone thinks like you do. We were long time family friends.