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Botany

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4. I remember that awful night and it still hurts.

Reply to Cuthbert Allgood (Original post)

Wed Dec 8, 2021, 12:11 PM

Dec 2021

I was 20 something and a friend and I were just driving around and smoking some dope we were
an cemetery in Delaware, OH looking for this really neat old headstone. It is huge and and it is an
oak tree, with bird nests, snakes, deer, squirrels, rabbits, geese, and a lot more and just as the head-
lights hit the monument Imagine came on the radio, snow was falling and then I heard that awful
I collapsed to my knees and started crying.

41 years later and we still have no gun laws.

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John Lennon was killed 41 years ago today [View all] Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2021 OP

Agree! Silly that my biggest memory was my little sister Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2021 #1

I was a freshman in college, and remember many classmates sobbing openly when they heard the news. Dial H For Hero Dec 2021 #2

Me too. JenniferJuniper Dec 2021 #3

I remember that awful night and it still hurts. Botany Dec 2021 #4

My mom and dad are buried right off of route 23. Boomerproud Dec 2021 #6

That's some story! And that is a beautiful headstone. electric_blue68 Dec 2021 #14

I was a mess PlanetBev Dec 2021 #5

And gun violence has only gotten worse since... tenderfoot Dec 2021 #7

I remember my mother in law Deuxcents Dec 2021 #8

I was in my senior year at college, slightlv Dec 2021 #9

I was watching Monday Night Football. Howard Cosell made the announcement. ElementaryPenguin Dec 2021 #10

Just saw this Howard Cosell announcing John's death on Monday night football Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2021 #11

I was 14 and I was in bed. My best friend called to tell me. chowder66 Dec 2021 #12

As a kid my mom would take me to the dentist who was on the same block as The Dakota... electric_blue68 Dec 2021 #13

I did not know about this until the next evening...Didn't have TV..I was 24 LeftInTX Dec 2021 #15

the rather eerie photo mnmoderatedem Dec 2021 #16