Aaron Lawson, 197?-2008

My brother-in-law abruptly died tonight. The cause is unknown. One minute he was there, another he was gone.

A few weeks ago he was hospitalized and put in an induced coma in intensive care for a bleeding stomach ulcer. But we don't know if it's related.

I knew Aaron since college. He leaves behind my sister Emily and my seven-year-old neice Bethanne.

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I packed the Mac Mini in a little bag and am getting things done online while at my parents' house. Friends of them and Emily are coming over and rallying around. People who I haven't seen in years. Bethanne acts like she didn't hear about it. She adores my graphics tablet.

Sam Gamgee in the LOTR films reminded me of Aaron.

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R lent me her car for the day, and there was a Death Cab For Cutie CD in there. I was introduced to "I'll Follow You Into The Dark". I didn't know they did songs about death from a basically nonreligious perspective. I've been thinking about this song ever since.
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