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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds
I noticed that, and my thoughts and prayers go out to Sparky. I didn't reply because I've never had to deal with anything similar and thus can't really offer any advice. I'm sure others feel the same way.
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This. Any advice other than what Roxy already posted outside of my ability.
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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah
I appreciate the silence lest you give dim witted poor advice.
But an acknowledgement of the sadness he must feel is always appropriate.
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I'm not really all that comfortable with outward displays of emotion, let alone voicing them. In these kinds of situations in real life, I generally stay quiet in awkward indecision outside of extreme situations with people to whom my specific support would be truly important, so anything I said would just be me parroting what I thought was appropriate, and I'm even less comfortable with that.
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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls
Yes I do, and even than I am rather apathetic(to a fault). It's a defense mechanism that I've built up over the years. If I never plugged and chatted with Paul I wouldn't have commented on his thread either.
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Exact same here. Notice how my posts in Paul's thread have almost all been jokes. Don't really know how to give "nice" support, but our interactions have always been jokingly antagonistic, so keeping up the status quo is sort of my way of keeping things feeling normal.