On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:12:34 -0400, NP-f31 wrote:
>Has it really been five years already? Five years ago today I got a
>frantic e-mail from the only girl I know to have received a Fort
>Badge, Princess NP-g03, telling me that MTB (NP-g02) had been rushed
>to the hospital. The preliminary report was not good and she was off
>to the hospital. It was late in the evening and there was nothing I
>could do.
>
>The next morning I made plane reservations to fly to Australia and I
>frantically tried to reach anyone I knew in Australia. I received a
>phone call a bit later from down under. MTB had died just after
>midnight (already the next day there) of bacterial meningitis. In the
>confusion that followed, his Princess joined him, it was her choice to
>be with him in death rather than live a long life without him.
>
>I'm not the only one who was devastated by the death of a 15 year old
>kid from Queensland. There was a deep emotional outpouring in The Fort
>and in a few other groups he had played in. Some of you knew him as
>Frex or Freckles. Ninja is his CyberGrandad, Mephi and KidHacker were
>his friends he touched the lives of many others.
>
>I still cry sometimes, when I remember him...
>
>Doc
>NP-f31
>
>Missed The Bus NP-g02
>(12-24-88 to 09-27-04)
I know I wrote you about this, but I wanted to share some of those
thoughts here, as well.
I knew MTB as "Freckles" in a movie ng for pop movies or apop, as it
were! I remember one time when someone began posting there under the
name "sweet prince" and I had something of a meltdown since "sweet
prince" was my nick for a very special boy that I had been mentoring
over the Internet. Robbie knew the extent of my feelings for him, and
he was okay with it -- and then he disappeared. But then, he was a bit
on the troubled side, and it may have been a matter of his illness.
But the point is that "Freckles" wrote a reply to my meltdown, and he
forever touched my heart with his sweet caring. And, I still miss him
and many others whom I have "lost" over the Internet, including a
sweet kid who died due to complications of asthma whom I met in
alt.fan.hanson.
And I wanted to say that God loves sweet kids too -- and he isn't
always willing to share them indefinitely; but, oh, what a light in
our lives while he does!
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