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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4829692" data-attributes="member: 54707">Hey guys.I didn't want you to think I had been ignoring your comments.But late last week a little boy I know from church was involved in an accidental drowning. I had been helping to take care of him in the nursery because of the fact that my wife had been performing (so I took her place).The Sunday before he drowned he would only let me hang around him in the nursery, and I spent about 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours reciting poetry (Will Blake mostly) to the kid, playing horse with him, telling him tales about Knights and elephants and tigers and exploring Africa. We became great friends in a short time and I even made him a helmet. Told him to wear it and he'd be a knight himself one day.Then later that week he fell in a pool and drowned. He was buried last Sunday and for someone I hardly knew it hit me kinda hard. Not that I'm not used to people dying or getting killed, but with kids and with accidents, that's not something I much expect or want to see happen. He wasn't even two years old and he was such a bright, well behaved, curious, and cute little boy. I saved a guy from drowning one time. And nearly drowned myself once. I wish I could have been there. I know I could have gotten to him. The family was torn up of course. Who wouldn't be. That's a hard row to hoe.Anyway, because of that and with what is going on right now in Iran and the Koreas (which I have a sort of personal stake and interest in) it's been kinda hard for me to generate the energy or interest to address more mundane matters.I'll get back to this later, when I can relax a little, but tonight I gotta get some work done.Hope you guys are well and see ya later.Jack.</blockquote>

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