Even as a mutual friend told us she'd come home early that Sunday morning & gone to sleep not long before the fire (As we assume it's assumed: Who can ever know what happened?) we had the thought that a cigarette might have caused the blaze (Shame on us!) but newspaper reports indicate crummy housing for people who work for a living:
a garage-turned-apartment that caught fire, apparently from combustible materials left next to a water heater, officials saidNot the first garage-turned-apartment she'd lived in.
And the first person w/ whom we'd, you know, done it on a regular basis, or (not to get carried away here) even "had a relationship," to have died. Of whom we know, one or two having fallen off the radar, if not the ends of the earth.
Crap. Just occurred to me she would have hit 54 w/in a very few days, though I can't remember the exact day just now. Fuck you, universe.
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That's pretty terrible, and so goddman senseless. Fuck, didn't anyone think that storing those materials near a heater was a bad idea?
I'm hearing "Jim Carroll" in my mind's ear.
No fire alarm?
All apartments should have a fire alarms.
Sorry to hear about this, M.B.
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Fuck you, universe.
agreed. We'll be charging them too.
Very sorry. And sad. Pointless. People dying because of crap housing.
BBBB - I've been hearing Carroll in my mind all day - there's a profile in the latest New Yorker.
M. Bouffant - what an interesting line of inquiry. Have any of my past...er...associates passed on? I am not sure. I'm not even sure I want to start thinking of it.
From The Obituary Desk:
Granted, not exactly natural causes, but mortality is lurking, & this is pretty close.
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