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#1 Jan 15 2010 at 4:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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Jon Carroll's column this morning concerned a web site started by a woman who was struck by the sudden eventualities that interrupt our lives. She decided to start http://wouldhavesaid.com to give people a platform for those things left unsaid.

This one in particular made me all teary:

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Dear Ralph,

I miss you. You were a wonderful husband and even better father and Emily misses you even more than I do. It’s been 23 years, 11 months and 15 days since you were killed in that car wreck and sometimes it feels like yesterday.

I really regret that I didn’t laugh at all your jokes. You’d try to crack me up when we were arguing, when I was frustrated by life and bills and all the stupid little things that made me mad. You’d play the fool for me and I would withhold my laughter to punish you because of my bad mood. I should have laughed. I’m sorry.

Love forever,

Me



I'm not sure I'd ever post a letter there. I have lost touch with friends in the past over really stupid things, so it's a little tempting.
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#2 Jan 15 2010 at 4:04 PM Rating: Good
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I'm not sure I'd ever post a letter there. I have lost touch with friends in the past over really stupid things, so it's a little tempting.
I had a whole group of friends I cut off after a pretty jarring experience in my life, and though I think of them at times with fondness, I really don't see how things would have worked out had we stayed friends.

I think we always regret not telling the deceased things because the opportunity is gone forever, but I try never to withhold from the living.

Edited, Jan 15th 2010 4:12pm by Atomicflea
#3 Jan 15 2010 at 4:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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Atomicflea wrote:
Samira wrote:
I'm not sure I'd ever post a letter there. I have lost touch with friends in the past over really stupid things, so it's a little tempting.
I had a whole group of friends I cut off after a pretty jarring experience in my life, and though I think of them at times with fondness, I really don't see how things would have worked out had we stayed friends.

I think we always regret not telling the deceased things because the opportunity is gone forever, but I try never to withhold from the living.

Edited, Jan 15th 2010 4:12pm by Atomicflea


Yeah, same. And oddly, the friend I was thinking of in particular isn't someone I really want back in my life, or I'd take steps to mend that fence. But I've regretted the way it happened.

I do wish I'd told my uncle what a hero he was in my eyes. He knew he was my favorite, I think, but I doubt he had any idea why.

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#4 Jan 15 2010 at 4:19 PM Rating: Default
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#5 Jan 15 2010 at 4:23 PM Rating: Excellent
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That was fairly tone deaf. Maybe give it some more thought and try again.

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#6 Jan 15 2010 at 4:31 PM Rating: Excellent
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I wish I could have told my grandpa that so many of the things I did in school, study history (as an undergrad) and now am pursuing a degree so I can teach at university, had to do with him. He loved history and always wanted to go to college but wasn't able, given our circumstances and where we grew up. I think he always thought that nothing he taught got through to us and it all got through to us. He was a great guy. He died in 1999.
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#7 Jan 15 2010 at 4:33 PM Rating: Good
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Mostly just after job interviews have I mulled over things left unsaid.
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#8 Jan 15 2010 at 4:42 PM Rating: Good
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#9 Jan 15 2010 at 5:14 PM Rating: Good
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I just read couple of those letters. Makes me realize all the things I should tell people while I can.
#10 Jan 15 2010 at 5:53 PM Rating: Good
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I tend to be too blunt, so maybe a "things better left unsaid" website would be better for me.
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#11 Jan 15 2010 at 5:57 PM Rating: Good
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I tend to be too blunt, so maybe a "things better left unsaid" website would be better for me.

No!

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