I found out today that one of my very best friends since middle school is dead in an apparent murder-suicide. The police investigation is still ongoing, but that is the preliminary analysis.
A group of us have managed to maintain our tight nit friendship from high school (16 years), and we all met this afternoon to hear the news. The friend who found out before all of us texted us this morning with some ominous meet up to share some bad news. A hundred different things went through my mind of what could be so bad to have this ominous meeting, but not this. I didn't even notice that the now dead friend was not one of the people who responded to the group chat.
All of us were in shock. A couple of us had talked with him earlier in the week and he seemed fine, his marriage always seemed to be really positive, and just...it's hard to believe he's gone, and even harder to believe that he could do something like this.
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