April 4, 2006

• B"H

  
  

  A SAD DEVELOPMENT

  
  

  Earlier today, actually it was yesterday at this point, Joe Boxer left home.  I was asleep, nearing the end of my mid-day nap when suddenly I was awakened by my wife. At that very moment, as she was speaking to me, he was taking his bags and a few boxes out to the curb and loading them into the car of a waiting friend.  

  
  

  I tried to wake up and sort out the details of this event as quickly as I could. Things in our home have not been going well for quite a while now. (Some of you know more of the details than others.) The short version of it goes like this. At the end of last July Joe Boxer came back to stay with us, after living for nearly a year in New York with his GOD-parents. Ever since he returned there has been trouble and turmoil over his current and future plans. It was stated that he was welcomed to stay with us for as long as he wanted, but he would be expected to participate in the regular household chores as well as to pay a set amount of rent. For various reasons he was unable to find regular work and so paying any type of rent was a major problem. In the eight months that he was recently with us, he has paid us several hundred dollars, but not in a regular or consistent manner and also, not in quite a while. Lately he was working in a local restaurant on the weekends, but he never gave us anything from that job. As it turns out, he has been saving the little money he has been making and planning the event that unfolded yesterday for several weeks.

  
  

  So, now he is gone.  I got up, got dressed and met him and his mother on the sidewalk. We talked for only a few minutes and then he left. The issues behind the pain; the name calling, the yelling, the angry words and various threats all remain fresh in my memory, but Joe Boxer himself is gone. Several times since then I have had to stop whatever I was doing and just breakdown and cry. Whoever is right and whoever is wrong still remains, but I miss him terribly and it hurts, a lot.

  
  

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  There will be more to say about this I'm sure. If anything significant occurs I'll post it, otherwise just pray for us.

  
  

  Shlomo

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