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riverwalker

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1. there but for the grace of God....
Sun May 18, 2014, 12:09 PM
May 2014


We always think "that would never happen to me, I have a family, a job, friends." Wrong, it could happen to any of us. She was once married to a successful patent attorney in Denver, had children, a home, and I'm sure many friends. Then she had a head injury, and (resulting?) mental illness, and who knows what else happened to her.
"She was a very nice lady. She would give you the shirt off her back if you needed it.
"She was crazy, but a good kind of crazy," she added. And, in a refrain repeated by several of Fishman's acquaintances, she noted, "She was on a lot of medication."

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_25784499/boulders-homeless-mourn-friend-latest-series-sad-losses

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