emeraldkity4

Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket

This is waiting to be made into a Chevy Chase movie ( or am I dating myself?)

cottonwood513

The day I found out my father was losing his long battle with cancer, my

parents' house had a fire, my mother died of smoke inhalation and my brother

and I were questioned regarding possible arson. That was my worst day so

far.

emeraldkity4

cottonwood your story reminded me of this book which I would like to recommend- I have gotten much inspiration and hope from rereading it over the years.

IN 1958, summer's end, the writer's brother-in-law was killed when his commuter train plunged off a New Jersey bridge into Newark Bay. Thirty-six hours later his widow died at the age of 45 of cancer, leaving four orphan boys. An awful believe-it-or-not is compounded by the circumstances of this book's publication: Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky died late last year from the same kind of cancer that killed her sister-in-law. ''Angels Without Wings'' was completed by her publisher, who converted three-quarters of the manuscript from third to first person, so as to agree with the final part.

'A WILDLY IMPROBABLE GANG OF NINE' - New York Times

cottonwood513

emeraldkity

finally got back here, thanks

Lafalum84

cottonwood, OUCH. I doubt you'll ever have a worse day than that.

I think I remember reading that the day Olivia Newton John's divorce was finalized, her father died and she received her breast cancer diagnosis.

cottonwood513

Yeah, it was something like that--planning two wakes and funerals and fighting with ins co on house fire.

Thanks. It was a long time ago, over a decade.