Having a bad day?

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<p>[Driver</a> gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket](<a href=“http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_bad_day.html?source=mypi]Driver”>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_bad_day.html?source=mypi)</p>

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

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<p>The day I found out my father was losing his long battle with cancer, my </p>

<p>parents’ house had a fire, my mother died of smoke inhalation and my brother</p>

<p>and I were questioned regarding possible arson. That was my worst day so </p>

<p>far.</p>

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<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>[‘A</a> WILDLY IMPROBABLE GANG OF NINE’ - New York Times](<a href=“http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DE123DF936A15753C1A961948260]'A”>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DE123DF936A15753C1A961948260)</p>

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<p>emeraldkity</p>

<pre><code>finally got back here, thanks
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<p>cottonwood, OUCH. I doubt you’ll ever have a worse day than that.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it was something like that–planning two wakes and funerals and fighting with ins co on house fire.</p>

<p>Thanks. It was a long time ago, over a decade.</p>