Counting our blessings -- hard, but we all should, not just in November.

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3. Oh, I am so sorry

I have been very worried over a personal friend who moved away to Michigan. I knew she had bought a gun. She told me her whole extended plan that she had laid out last year. Very detailed. She couldn't afford it. She was a couple hundred short.
She managed to buy one this summer. She is poor as Hell, but signed up for a concealed carry course. She got a certificate of completion but because of the bipolar and all the meds she knew she couldn't get past the background to carry it around. She was actually quite stablized. I think she might have been feeling a little too good, maybe a teensie bit manic, cuz she decided to go back to Florida to be a groom at the racetrack. I haven't heard from her in months now, until today.

I so thought of her when you told your story. I've been so afraid she might have gone out to the woods and gotten under a pile of brush like she talked about. She's back in her subsidized apartment, with a horrible cough, but she is alive.

I'm so relieved it makes tears run down my cheeks.