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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:00 AM

We lost almost everything in Katrina

And now I fear that our landlady stole our china cabinet. I'm heartbroken
By Cary Tennis

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  • Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:03 AM

    Perhaps not the cabinet itself but what it represents...

    ...is ultimately what matters to the LW (who has my sympathy). And, too, it may symbolize the last straw, the one that tipped over her grief. Sometimes the seemingly (to some) insignificant do that to us. And who are you, Paul, to judge her for that pain, regardless of its trigger or source? Each of us deals with pain and loss in our own way.

    Perhaps if she can find the cabinet, but can't salvage the wood, she can salvage the door pulls or some other component of it around which to build a new cabinet.

    —RatherBRidin' Read RatherBRidin''s other letters

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