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To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (13)	10/27/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: ISOMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23

This thread reminded me of Sarah. When I was a little boy I had a really good friend in school called Sarah. Sarahs mother was a registered nurse up here in Canada. Her Father owned a cleaning business. Sarahs mom was the main bread winner of the family. one day when Sarah and I were playing in the jungle gym at school, Sarahs aunt came to get her. Her Aunt was crying. Sarah and I were 7 years old. I later found out that Sarahs mother had died suddenly of a brain anerism. The days are not fully clear to me, but I remember that Sarah had to move away. Looking back, it was because Her parants had not had enough life insurance and the insurance they did have barely paid for the funeral. Sarahs father had lost his house to the bank because his payments were to much for him to handle. Because he was so grief stricken, he began missing appointments, and he lost business because of it. In a depression spiral, he eventually lost all of his things. The car, the house, his small savings. I found out that Sarah and her dad ended up in a homeless shelter. It is at that shelter, where Sarah wandered away one night while her father was sleeping. They found her body in the dumpster behind the shelter. Sarahs father later committed suicide. To this day I hate banks and people who take advantage of those who are temporarily blind sided by life. I still think of Sarah , often.