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Sat, 18:14: I have sad news, and I am sharing here because I know some people who cared about Mom, and by extension cared about Bill, would want to know and may not find out otherwise.
Bill passed away this morning of COVID. He was admitted to the hospital only last night, that being my first notice of him even having it. It came to the worst possible outcome with incredible swiftness. It's true that he had several comorbidities, but still this disease is no joke.
I'm not even certain how I am processing it myself. He and I were never close, but I did care about him, and I certainly cared that Mom was the love of his life (and vice versa). And of course, there was the fact that, after Mom died last year for reasons totally unrelated to COVID and yet in the middle of it, Bill was kind of the last way in which Mom lived on, though him.
I suppose she still lives on through Christopher and me. Still, Bill and Mom were something to each other no one else could be. If nothing else, we can be comforted in the idea that they are now reunited. That was what Bill certainly longed for. I had countless issues over time with both of them, but one thing I could never deny was that they were made for each other—something none of the rest of us could see upon their stunningly rushed marriage in 1997, which was followed by 24 years of them proving us all wrong.
Still: I'm going to bring something up that many probably won't want me to, but I am so far beyond giving a shit at this point. This unquestionably WOULD NOT have happened had Bill been vaccinated. This was a senseless, pointless, preventable death, just like hundreds of thousands of others this year and last.
