And speaking of anniversaries

On this day last year, I had to say good-bye to my baby-cat Douglas.
Wow, in someways it seems like it was just yesterday and in others it seems like forever ago. I miss him so much.
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In other news a boy I grew up with, named Bradley died this week.
Our mom's were best friends, they were both divorced, worked in the same office, and just struggling to make ends meet. So we ended up spending a lot of time together.
Our mom's even dragged us on vacation together a time or two.
He was year older than me and tortured me like a sibling would. Mom mentioned an incident last night of him locking me out of the house, and I had totally blocked it out. Ugh!
Being an only child who was quiet in nature, he was hard for me to deal with.
Most other kids were hard for me to deal with, since I would much rather be with adults.
So anyway we found out that he died this week. He was 38, with a college education, married, and evidently he O.D.'d.
I don't understand it, but I am saddened by it anyway.
His funeral was today, mother and I had intended to go, but in the end neither of us could pull it together to go.
I will be glad when this day is over.