This flashback friday is a little more somber. I’ve lost a few friends over the last few years, and it’s never an easy thing. Each one I think of often.
This photo is from Graduate School, on our monthly outing to the bars of Athens (if you’ve never been, it’s the city in America with the most bars per square mile….). It was one of the last times I saw Andrea out at the bar, and I you would never have known that she was as depressed as she was. She took her own life in 2007, and I miss her.
She was studying to be an entomologist and I’ve never met a more colorful person. She always gave me the biggest hugs, and wasn’t afraid to goof off on camera with me. She introduced me to The Mr. Move, and we got kicked out a bar together (with Kat and Cheyanne!) earlier that year during a Mr. Move concert (probably my most bad*ss moment, and it wasn’t even our fault!). I miss you very much, Andrea. I still think of you all the time.
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