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“Second in a three-part series
"On fire preveiition,

Trailers, I have been told,
vt can incinerate in seven minutes.
Mine burned in 20,
That was four years ago.
How do you pick up the .
pieces to your life after such a
_ shattering event? All the king’s
_ horses and all the king’s men
-couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty
back together again.

Diary excerpts

October 20th, 1985. I walk
through. the remains of my
home for the last time.

_ My home. Empty, black,
charred, silent, Lifeless. A
‘burned-out aluminum shell...

Two-by-fours, once hidden
between wood panelled walls,
stand exposed, charred and
blackened... Remains, black-
ened by fire, grime-stained by
thick, greasy, heavy smoke,
soddened and soggy from the
Jiremen’s hose; remains, ‘no

- longer recognizable as-once .-
‘reasured possessions... . .
| A chilling, damp gust of:
wind swirls through the dark,
burned interior. Two Sundays
ago it was the raging wind
JSrom a super-hot fireball...

I shiver, wrap the borrowed
overly-large jacket around me
more tightly, take one last look
— not really looking, not really
seeing, mot even remembering...
Only feeling — as empty and
as burned-out as my home.

My home, It represented my
life... What I was... Who I
was... It’s like having amnesia.
I have no past, It’s gone...

Today — (what day is it?).—
today, our trailer was taken
away to the dump. I didn’t
watch it go.

My home. At the dump...

Scavengers feast on our re-
mains... Do they scrounge _
through the ruins that once
held love and laughter and life,
feeling any emotion at all? —~

Anglican
Church to
host mission

St. Matthews Anglican
Church of Terrace is presenting
a three-day program of sermons
and meetings to allow local resi-
dents to become acquainted with
the work being done by the
churches Live Diocesan ‘Minis-
tries.

The program begins on the
evening of Oct. 15 and continues
for the following two days.
Further information is available
from the St. Matthews parish
office at 635-9019.

sells on asighi!

Who can n understand r my

grief?

People mean well. They try
to comfort,.““At least nobody
died in the fire,”’ they console.
“You're lucky. no one was -

hurt.” —

No: Nobody died i in the fire.
Pets died. But no human life

~ was lost. And yet...
Jeels like someone —. someone
near-and-dear died. Suddenly,

tragically, violently. Someone I.

love, and miss...

No one was hurt? I hurt.
Sometimes I feel as if my flesh
burned away. The wounds are

Even so, it

“Who i is there to comfort?
Who is there to help? If it hap-
pens to. you, what can you eX~

pect?

I remember when I found the
destroyed baby cradle — that
beautiful cradle my Dad so lov-
ingly made for our first child

_ — tormented and devoured by
Slames. Our baby is now a first
year university student, In
Sront of the torched cradle m ry
‘husband and I embraced, and
remembered,.. Wrapped in
each other’ 5 arms,-we cried...

I discovered this. Open arms.
and open hearts. From friends.
From neighbors. From family.
Even strangers. ‘And from a
church I don’t even attend.
. Someone I have never met

hangers...

for me...

ciated. My darling mother, —
' along with a wardrobe of.
clothes, thought to include -

‘Food hampers arrived. - ;
Friends, neighbors, and people
we didn’t know loaned us fur-
niture. A church donated brand .
new bedding and towels, ‘At a
Girl Guide meeting Guide:
leaders held a surprise shower

_ Friends fed us. Friends

babysat our surviving pets until —

ment..

we relocated and set up the -

semblance of a home.again. . |
Friends dropped in with plants,
_ with spices, with encourage-
. Friends taped some of:
our favorite music lost in the
fire, For a long time I couldn’t
listen to it because of the pain-
ful memories attached to it.
But now, when I listen to it I

© Renae Review — — Weeinesday, October 11, eos " —_

Fire Prevention Month - — - learn not to burn ©

still painfully fresh, raw, and ment from those who really
-‘eare, and friendship where: you:
- did not suspect it..
: ‘+ Adebt of love — how, ever
: - gan it be repaid? - oT
» When I expressed. this feeling
to my closest friend, she gave

me this poem:

Love is not given te hide away —
In some safe place ‘for a rainy:

day.

Love is not given for us to

hold,

To place on a's shelf, or wear it

as gold, .

Love is not given for us fo.
. store ;
Behind a closed and bolted

door. -

But love is given to flow on

. through -

From someone to me and from

me to you.

gave us toothbrushes, a note-
book and pen. Simple things —
. but, oh, how they were needed.

_am reminded of that very .
thoughtful and generous
gesture.

Love is a circle, a wondrous

chain

To be given and given and

Relatives sent us a family -

Perhaps no one will really

‘‘care’’ package and tucked in
a deck of cards. A little thing
—_ — but, oh, how it was appre-

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given again.

was signed with love.
That’s what Poor Humpty
lacked.

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