My partner's cousins were killed in a car accident yesterday. They were driving to a post-Christmas family gathering, and they slid on black ice right into the path of an oncoming truck.
We've been in shock these last two days. I don't know how it can just happen like that, that two wonderful, vital people can just be dead, all of the sudden. I keep thinking about the next time I will see them... before I remember that I won't be seeing them.
We don't live near them - we are in California and they were in Indiana. My partner is going to the funeral this week, but we are quite tight on money and we couldn't afford to buy four tickets (for me and the boys) - we could have afforded two, but there is no one to take care of our 2 and 6 year olds. So it's just my partner going. I feel sad about that, but I guess it is okay.
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