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@CinnamonSugar, I really relate to the loss you have suffered. I lost our best family friend to a heart attack in 2020. He is the person who was always there when my husband was sick. I had been his friend since the second grade. He formed a close relationship with my husband in high school.

They had a business together for about 10 years and then they both went to work at the same company. He was always a big part of our life. He was there when our child came. He helped around the house, built a patio so our son had a place to play.

To say least, he was family and treated as such. After my husband passed he continued to be part of our family. He dragged me out to dinners with other friends. He called and we would talk for hours. No one else shared so many memories.

He never married or had children, he was estranged from his brothers. He made his will to leave everything to our son. I can only guess it was because he truly felt he was a part of our family, that was true.

I miss him so much. He was the main connection to the memories of the early life of my husband and I.

It is hard for others to imagine the emotional connection we have to others that are not bonded to us by blood, Only, by true love, connection can we embrace the true connection, My husband and I were given that great gift. I think you have also experienced a love beyond comprehension.

I am so sorry for your loss and understand you will struggle with it all the days of your life as do I.
 
Blessed said:
@CinnamonSugar, I really relate to the loss you have suffered. I lost our best family friend to a heart attack in 2020. He is the person who was always there when my husband was sick. I had been his friend since the second grade. He formed a close relationship with my husband in high school.

They had a business together for about 10 years and then they both went to work at the same company. He was always a big part of our life. He was there when our child came. He helped around the house, built a patio so our son had a place to play.

To say least, he was family and treated as such. After my husband passed he continued to be part of our family. He dragged me out to dinners with other friends. He called and we would talk for hours. No one else shared so many memories.

He never married or had children, he was estranged from his brothers. He made his will to leave everything to our son. I can only guess it was because he truly felt he was a part of our family, that was true.

I miss him so much. He was the main connection to the memories of the early life of my husband and I.

It is hard for others to imagine the emotional connection we have to others that are not bonded to us by blood, Only, by true love, connection can we embrace the true connection, My husband and I were given that great gift. I think you have also experienced a love beyond comprehension.

I am so sorry for your loss and understand you will struggle with it all the days of your life as do I.
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Thank you for the beautiful thoughts, @Blessed Like your friend, Ed was there in good and bad times. A true friend
 
Continuing much computer coding, so little time for posting. But now in the end phase rechecking all of 6 web pages, with a total of 103 Sony a6700 images. As a grammar nitpciker, during checking have plenty of commas to add everywhere haha. Looks like late afternoon will take a break for being a "good boy" and since it's a nice sunny day with a temperature of 73F and low breezes, drive downtown where I see some outdoor live blues rock is playing.
 
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That's the worst! In the renovating of this house, the damage that has been found from water leaks/infiltration has made me absolutely paranoid and OCD about water leaks. I feel for you, especially since you are dependent on others' cooperation for repairs. Argh!
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Would you believe this is by far not the worst leak situation I've experienced since living here! Not long after I moved in, I had a leak in my clothes closet (yes water pipes run through it for us on the first floor). I kept telling the maintenance man I had to add a basin, then bucket, the garbage can underneath to catch the water and do something about it. One morning, it was so damp in here that I took my little boy to my parent's apartment (they lived in the building across from us) and got him settled. I came back to get something for work and firemen met me at my door with ax in hand. The pipe burst and flooded the entire first floor!

A few years ago, water was pouring into my hallway, even coming out of the ceiling fan. One of the board members came over because neither my neighbor above me nor the one above her admitted to having water leaking in their apartments. After the board member got the third floor neighbor to open her door again, he found out that she hadn't really checked in her bathroom and the water was coming from there. When he hit the switch for the ceiling fan, I was so afraid that he was going to get electricuted!

There have been several other issues with leaks coming from above me. The one before this one was a leak, directly over my toilet. My upstairs neighbor could detect any leaks in her bathroom, but I told her that the same thing happened to me and it was discovered when contractors wre doing work in the basement. A piece inside my commode had broken and the water went straight down into the basement, left no moisture around the base of my commode, therefore went undetected by me.

Anyway, it was the same with my neighbor. I called the emergency number at around 1:00 a.m. At 1:30 our contractor got back to me and said he'd come that morning, and he did. His company always does a great job. I posted about it (with pictures) in this thread:
I Had A Leak Over My Toilet
I remember another leak that happened a couple of decades ago when I actually had to sit on the toilet with an umbrella until it was fixed.

Update: The contractor who does a great job checked my neighbor's apartment. Turns out the leak was not coming from there, but from a hot water pipe in the wall over my sink. Because it's considered a common area, I won't have to pay for that repair, but he said I'll likely have to get new cabinets. I've been wanting to remodel my kitchen anyway and I had discussed refacing the cabinets with him before he discovered the extent of the damage. So we'll see how it goes. But the additional bad news is that he couldn't fix it.

He said the boiler company has to do it. In the meantime, he found this pipe in his truck that he used to divert the water from pooling in the wall, but it is dripping right near the middle of the sink, so it's hard to use the sink without getting dripped on. Still I'm thankful that he thought to do that. I have a countertop dishwasher, so the little dishes we'll be using will be rinsed and washed in there. We'll be eating restaurant food for at least a few more days.

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