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Haha, I wasn't referring to your original post. I meant even in really terrible things.

When my mom died after heart surgery, I went around telling people that the surgery had been a success, but the patient had died. They mostly didn't find it that amusing, but it was true nonetheless.

(In fact, it was the success of the surgery that killed her...they repaired the valve, but the damaged heart muscle then couldn't provide sufficient force to circulate the blood through the repaired valve.)

When my uncle's ashes were stolen by an opportunistic (but doubtless ultimately disappointed) house breaker, I quipped to my surviving uncle that I'd been waiting for him to go too, so I could have the full set, but now that plan was ruined.

There's always a funny side.

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[aliantha]

Ah, gallows humor.

TOM, I might have come down too hard on you for that first post. I apologize. And I'm not deleting this thread. So there.

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Saw a comedian last night saying she didn't have a failed marriage, she had a successful divorce.

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[aTOMiC]

TOM, I might have come down too hard on you for that first post. I apologize. And I'm not deleting this thread. So there.

Ali, there is certainly no need to apologize and if you wish to leave this thread undeleted then I respect your wishes. Maybe one day I will remember what my original post contained and I'll re write it or at least paraphrase some of it.

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Oh, I could paraphrase it, bu I wouldn't do it justice.

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[sgt.null]

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well said.

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--A