[78-L] A death in our record family...

[Michael Shoshani]

Just to add to all this, Andrea (or Pet, as she preferred to be called) 
and I became great pals through 78-L, eventually spreading to 
LiveJournal and Facebook as well. We would often text each other 
pictures of where we were and what we were doing if one of us felt like 
the other would be interested.

Her preferred nickname, Pet, came from petquality which, with the 
occasional variant, was the name she used online. It's apparently a dog 
show term: a dog that is "pet quality" does not have the perceived value 
of one that is "show quality". This was, sadly, a reflection of her 
often negative self-image.

Her life was, indeed, plagued with unhappiness. If I recall correctly 
both her parents were murdered when she was young. Those of us who knew 
her know of her divorce and the years that went before that. I talked 
her down from suicidal thoughts on several occasions, as I would suspect 
several of my fellow listers did.

Her daughter was the light of her life and the focus of her existence. 
To have been cut down so suddenly, on the verge of making a new and 
possibly happier life for herself, as the sun appeared to finally be 
coming up on her horizon, is a horrible, bitter, dark and tragic irony. 
As is her last Facebook entry, from the wee hours of Saturday morning, 
which I quote here in its entirety:

"I have to be up loading and driving in less than five hours but I just 
can't get my mind to shut down and sleep. Not even old XFM 
Gervais/Merchant/Pilkington podcasts on youtube, which usually help me 
sleep, are working. Please sleep Andrea. Sleep while you can."

Bitterly poignant, in retrospect.

Michael Shoshani
Chicago
Who did not sleep well last night and who is at work attempting to hold 
himself together.


On 06/03/2012 09:49 PM, Roger Wade wrote:
> Andrea wore her heart on her sleeve for all to see.  She had a wonderful enthusiasm for records, for music, for her daughter, for life.  Although I never met her in person I felt that I knew her as a result of all of our correspondence over the last few years.  Her death at this time comes as a terrible shock and a huge loss to our community.  I only hope that her ex-husband can step up and be the father her daughter Teresa is going to need.
>
> Roger Wade
> Really Old Records
>
> On Jun 3, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>
>> We became friends on this list and on facebook.  We laughed and cried
>> thru her miserable divorce and her struggle to get her life together.
>> This is tragic.  She was so looking forward to her new life.  She was so
>> open -- I can't believe we never met in person.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] A death in our record family...
>> From: "Taylor Bowie"<bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> Date: Sun, June 03, 2012 9:11 pm
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