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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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http://neatorama.cachefly.net/notes-left-behind.htm
This made me cry.
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| Just before her sixth birthday, Elena Desserich (right) was diagnosed with brain cancer and given 135 days to live. She lived 255 days, passing away in 2007. After her death, Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith, found hundreds of notes from Elena hidden around the house — in between CD cases, between bookshelves, in dresser drawers, in backpacks…. |
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
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Location: Massachusetts
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That's pretty sad and awesome at the same time. Nice to see someone capitalizing WITH charity in mind. I wish I didn't read the comment section on that page though.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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I rarely read comments on professional blogs. So many assholes...
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| I rarely read comments on professional blogs. So many assholes... |
Agreed, most of them are sure it's some sort of scam. Our world is so fucked. 
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sidewaydriver
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I hope there really is something better after this life, and something worse for the ones that deserve it.
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SoldierHawk
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Oh. My god. If it makes you feel better Syd, I think I cried harder than you possibly could have.
Just...just...yeah. All I can do is second Sideway's sentiment that I really hope there's something better after this life. Sums it up just about right.
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FNJ
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I do kind of wonder how the parents didn't find the notes in the 255 days that their kid was still alive, but considering they aren't doing anything to get rich off of it, I doubt it's a work.
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Syd Lexia
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Cuz you know, cleaning the house is priority #1 when your kid is dying. Also, who knows when she hid them? Probably not in the last month though.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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thanks for sharing that syd. that was very heart-warming. its probably the full moon though.
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Rydog
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Who cares, I bet they found a few and just dismissed it at the time. Then after she passed and they kept finding them more and more, they figured it out.
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FNJ
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Cuz you know, cleaning the house is priority #1 when your kid is dying. Also, who knows when she hid them? Probably not in the last month though. |
| FNJ wrote: |
| I do kind of wonder how the parents didn't find the notes in the 255 days that their kid was still alive, but considering they aren't doing anything to get rich off of it, I doubt it's a work. |
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
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I'll back FNJ up on that. We're talking hundreds of notes in many different locations around the house. You don't have to do a thorough spring cleaning to stumble on a lot of them. You'd do it just by living. Just think about your daily routine and everything you interact with where a note could possibly be hidden.
I'm guessing she hid them all soon before she died, otherwise there's no way they wouldn't have discovered half of them while she was still alive. My stepsons love to hide notes all over the house because they pretend they are quest givers from World of Warcraft (they watch my wife play and get inspired) and I stumble on them all the time just doing normal every day tidying up.
With this story, they're talking about hundreds of notes which would be very difficult to overlook. The story may definitely be real, but the Neatorama write-up may be exaggerated.
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Deadmau_5pra
Title: Amatuer film/podcaster
Joined: Feb 10 2009
Location: Chicago Area
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Rest In Peace little one.
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Eddie_Hyde
Title: Ernie with the Disposal
Joined: Apr 13 2009
Location: Gulag
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That's so sad... both the actual story and the fact that the first comment was some asswipe conspiracy theorist bastard.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Anyone else immediately think of that line from Every Day Is Exactly the Same ? 
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FNJ
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just to repeat my self for clarification:
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| but considering they aren't doing anything to get rich off of it, I doubt it's a work. |
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