Well, we've made it back to the apartment. We had a nice time yesterday even though it rained most of the time. We went to Danna's and ate BBQ which was very good. Then we went to the hotel and walked down to the Landing. Messed down there and then went to a show that evening. SIX which is a very good show if you have a chance to go see it. 6 brothers that make music, instrument sounds and all with their mouths. Got to the hotel late and the boys walked down to the Landing to Ernie Biggs, which is a Piano Bar.
Then we woke up this morning to devastating news. One of Josh's life long friends was shot and killed at his house. Three times in the chest is what we heard. 25 years old, we don't know for sure why or anything about except that it is a loss. Blaine was a good, good young man. It just made me sick at my heart. Not only for Blaine's family whom I know very well but for everyone else this young man touched through his short life on this earth. Blaine owned two bars in the Warrensburg area, one he named after his grandma Molly. He had worked a year or so on the off shore drilling rigs in the gulf and made quite a bit of money. That was when he came back and opened up these bars. Josh has been telling me stories about Blaine and told me one time there was a homeless man in the back of the bar and Blaine brought him into the bar, fed him, gave him a job and helped him back on his feet. That is the Blaine Whitworth I knew. Such a good, good human being. I can't think of anything else except this. We don't know why things happen the way they do but this happened within a split second and in that second his family will never be the same again.
I am going to leave off here for right now. I cannot express how important it is to tell someone close to you that you love them. It may be the last time you see them. Keep those that are close to you close and make amends with your enemies. Life is to short to hate.
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