Hey, Bobby,
                Hang in there!  I am glad you are alive and can feel the sadness and grief.
It means you have some valuable connections.
Love, Mariana

At 09:00 AM 12/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey gang,
>
>        The wife and I got back from Colorado. It was very sad to have my
>sister-in-law buried right before Christmas. When I returned, I recieved an
>e-mail from our department that a 30 something colleague delivered a still
>born
>and bled to death in the process. They had the service yesterday, but I
>could not go due to what we went thru in Colorado. The sister-in-law who
>died was an identical twin to the sister-in-law who is my best buddy in the
>family. The surviving twin(my buddy) has congestive heart disease and as we
>left the viewing
>she grabbed and said, "Half of me is in that coffin!" I really am functioning
>on auto-pilot since I have been back. The dead sister-in-law(Joan) is
>buried next to my niece who died in a car wreck four years ago. I am
>getting to hate Colorado. I apologize for crying on everyone's shoulder
>this morning.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Bobby
>