who died in the damn fire on Friday??? I can't get the information from The News Journal, I can't get it from the news, I can't get it from the internet... It's driving me nuts!!! People have told me that it's my ex-best friend Kindra and her baby boy...but nothing really adds up as far as that goes. I'll now list the reasons why:
1. The house on the news looks nothing like the townhouse they purchased, as it is a single family two story home. It is also not even on the street, or in the same neighborhood as where her mortgage is recorded. I have now learned that in fact they had just recently started renting the two story home that she died in on Friday.
2. The age of the woman reported is not accurate - or at least not Kindra's age. She is 26, like me. A day younger - as she never let me forget, and every news report I've heard says the woman is either 21 or 27...and now I'm even finding "in her 20s".... It seems that the media just couldn't get it right. Because obviously she was 26.
3. There is no mention of what happened to her two dogs in the fire...and I can't imagine mention of them wouldn't have turned up somewhere. They were like her first children before she even got pregnant. There was mention in the article in the Sunday paper that their one dog, Duke, died in the fire too.
4. The news articles make mention that her mother and grandmother were waiting across the street in the dining room (?) for if the fire fighters had found her. Now, Kindra's dad's parents are both dead. And her mom's live in Montana. Unless by some strange coincidence her grandparents happened to be in town this week, I don't know how it could've been her.
5. I guess I just can't believe that Kindra would be stupid enough to stay in a house that she had reported earlier in the morning as smelling so badly of gas that it hurt her lungs. Especially with a baby. I mean, I can't believe anyone would be that stupid, but I just can't believe Kindra would have done that. (And if this sounds harsh, I am sorry, but why in the hell would you continue to hangout in a house that smelled strongly like gas, in 95 degree heat???) I have now learned that once again, the media had it wrong. Apparently there had been gas problems a few weeks ago, but all of that had been cleared up, as far as they know. They are now thinking that something electrical could have been wrong with the house.
6. I can't believe she wouldn't have figured out a way to get out of the house. No matter what that girl has done to me, or how I've felt about her for the last two or so years, she doesn't seem the type to give up and hangout in the second floor of the house just waiting to die. I would've thought she'd scratch and claw her way out somehow. She was the surviving type. No matter how badly she got hurt, she'd get right back up and hurt you harder. Apparently, she was supposed to be sleeping when the fire started. I'm wondering if by the time she may have woken up and realized what was going on, the smoke inhalation was just too much for her, and she couldn't get to her son and save him and herself.
7. Even weirder is that I can't find any mention of her baby anywhere. You'd think I'd at least find it in the birth announcements on the News Journal's website...but it's not there at all. Nowhere! Now tell me how a baby was born without anyone knowing? I can't even find it in her husband's ancestry/family tree on the web. Weird. This I still haven't figured out. Maybe it's a mystery I'm not meant to solve.
I guess I'm just having a hard time swallowing all of this. I was extremely close to this woman for eight years of my life. Then she did some awful things to me and my family, at a time in my life when I just didn't have room for people who told me they loved and cared about me, but turned around and stabbed me in the back as soon as I was walking away from them. And she did a lot of crappy things to me right after I'd just gotten out of a physically abusive relationship, and right when my dad found out he was terminally ill with cancer. The worst time someone who claims to be your best friend could do something like that to you. Granted they never should, but especially not at a time like that.
If it is her, I don't even know how to feel about it. Am I sorry she's dead? Yes. I don't believe anyone deserves to die like that. And especially not an 18 month old baby, who's done nothing to deserve anything like that. Did I imagine doing terrible things to hurt her and make her feel the betrayal and hurt that she had caused me to feel? Sure. Would I have ever actually done it? Probably not. But does it make me feel guilty knowing she might be dead, and have died in such a horrible way? I don't know. It's the strangest situation to be in. I loved her family too...got along great with her husband. But they knew we'd had a falling out and I have no idea what lies she might have told them about why we weren't talking. Because I sure as hell know she wouldn't tell them the real story. I think she lied so much she actually believed her lies. And we are talking about a person that stole money from me, from her own cousin, and even from her own husband. I don't want to speak badly of the dead, and maybe I shouldn't. But she wasn't the most trustworthy person ever.
Anyway, I'm getting off track. I'm trying to figure out if I should go to the funeral. I don't know if people would want me there...don't know what kind of feelings I'll stir because I don't know what these people have been told about me in the last two years. Do I love her family? Yes, they were like my own for many years of my life, and took me in when I needed them most. But I don't want to intrude in one of the most vulnerable and naked moments of their life if they don't particularly want me there. What on earth do I do...???
JEEZ. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE RELEASE THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS IN THAT FIRE??!! I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HOLD UP, AND I NEED TO SEE IT IN BLACK AND WHITE!
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