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Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

Tommie_O_Hicks <fredhibbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

There have been a couple of times I googled the name of an old
accomplice of mine a took pause when I saw the words "survived by" in
the search. I learned of the death of my first high school girlfriend
through a google search. Interesting times.

A few years ago, while applying for a security clearance, I needed
to find what I could of a woman I was briefly married to in the
early 1980s. No kids, so we didn't stay in touch. I finally found
her via https://www.findagrave.com/. She had died in 1996.

I performed a search and found her younger sister, and sent a letter
by the conventional method. No response. By this time, I no longer
needed the info, but wanted to get some closure. So I sent another,
assuring her that I just wanted to close the book and that if she
continued to not respond I would respect her privacy and leave her
alone.

A few months later I received an email. We had a call. The sister,
my former mother-in-law, and my former brother-in-law were on the
other end.

M_____ had hanged herself in the basement of the home she was
renting from her grandparents. She was apparently pretty deep into
drugs and afraid of losing custody of her children by a previous
husband.

Husband previous to you,or just previous to her suicide?

That was a shock. It was not a surprise.

(One child went the way her mom did - not the suicide, but the
drugs. Spent some time in jail. No idea where she is now. The
other is, or was, a competitive bodybuilder of some reknown in
Colorado.)

"Renown",isn't it?

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From Newsgroup: alt.obituaries

Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:

Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

Just now seeing this for some reason.

M_____ had hanged herself in the basement of the home she was
renting from her grandparents. She was apparently pretty deep into
drugs and afraid of losing custody of her children by a previous
husband.

Husband previous to you,or just previous to her suicide?

Previous to me. The ex was the custodial parent; apparently M_____
obtained custody sometime after our divorce.

The inlaws, or rather those who were still living, were all doing
well, apparently. So there's that.

That was a shock. It was not a surprise.

(One child went the way her mom did - not the suicide, but the
drugs. Spent some time in jail. No idea where she is now. The
other is, or was, a competitive bodybuilder of some reknown in
Colorado.)

"Renown",isn't it?

Yes, thanks.
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