I'm a longtime semi-lurker, but I wanted to tell you that I think I totally understand your initial impulse to tear up the settlement check when it arrived -- I just lost my dad (he was 45, and he wasn't ill or anything) and I had the same reaction when I found out that my husband and I will most likely be able to pay off all our student loans with what I'm inheriting. He wasn't wealthy (worked for the post office most of his life), so that was sort of a shock, and I hadn't been expecting anything, but it felt sort of like it would be easier if I was getting like $200 rather than that. I didn't want it.
I just wanted to say that I've been thinking about you and I think I sort of understand how you felt.
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Date: 2008-07-07 01:35 pm (UTC)I just wanted to say that I've been thinking about you and I think I sort of understand how you felt.