HOchie 1... or 2 signing in.
Life has a way of pouncing when you aren't thinking about it and dropping a heavy does of itself on you.
This HOchie was happily sitting in her hairstylist's chair getting a way overdue cut when her favourite stylist broke in with a "you know that guy that those people are talking about?" I really had not been listening to the conversation that was going on behind me since I exist most times in my own conversation but since Stylist brought it up, I felt compelled to feign interest and ventured a timid "what about him?"
Well, the HOchies now know that this guy that we secretly always liked in a platonic way, about whom we always smiled knowingly between us on our visits there, who was slim, very pale and had very blonde hair that fell straight down and covered his neck with the long front brushed very neatly to the side, who smiled shyly and spoke softly, who we wanted to talk to but kind of preferred to love-like from afar and keep his cute human existence a regular factor in our visit to the salon is dead. Actually he was KILLED by a 24-year-old female from Connecticut who chose to go out, chose to drink on the night when she knew she would be driving and ploughed into him without ever stopping as he was crossing the street. The HOchies were shocked into horrified silence.
Needless to say, even though this event happened on December 1, 2005, it just happened for us. Once again, someone's life has been cut short because someone chose to drive drunk and if that person is found guilty of Manslaughter/Murder, all she will get is 7 years in jail. She probably won't serve half that.
I really want to rave on and on about how unfair this whole situation is and I want to say more but they are angry words and I don't want this post to lose itself in anger so I will say:
Goodbye Kevin. I wish we had said hello to you. We really wanted to and now we will never have a chance. I hope you are smiling that smile wherever you are and that you keep brushing your fine, blonde hair to the side. We will think about you and you will live on in the mind of two quasi-strangers as you live on in the hearts of those who love you.
Laters. =(
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