PLEASE SEND YOUR PRAYERS/VIBES/MOJO/WHATEVER to my friend’s cousin’s boyfriend… he’s in a bad place and needs your help!
there’s no easy way to explain… so i’ll have my friend Magpiebard from Ravelry.com say it herself
Whatever, whoever, however you believe… and even if you don’t… think real hard and hope.
Just got a call from my mom.
My cousin’s fiance is Mexican. He was here illegally – went back home and worked his ass off, and is up for a visa in 3 months. They want to get married as soon as they can.
In the outskirts of Mexico City, it’s bad. 3 hours ago, he and his best friend were walking home from work.
Drug dealers shot his friend down in the street – for no other reason but “they can.”
Carlos was shot as well. He had the cell phone my cousin bought him. He called her.
From a hole in the ground, somewhere out in the country. He is shot. He doesn’t know where he is. He has no money – nothing to bargain, barter, beg with. He called to ask her to pray, to tell her he loved her, and to say goodbye. The last words she heard were “They are coming back” voices she didn’t know… and a click.
The police – no use. Things there are just too bad. No way to track the cell. No one to reach out to. My uncle, a retired cop has already made desperate calls – the death of the friend confirmed. Carlos being shoved by laughing dogs into a truck – confirmed.
I know this is… a lot. But whatever you believe – could you spare a moment tonight and pray? Pray for a man alone and hurt – and most likely going to die. Pray for my cousin – she can’t reach him. Can’t help him. And most likely is never going to even have a body to bury. To say she is loosing her mind, faith, everything is a light version. I’m scared for what she might do, try to do.
And I couldn’t blame her. All I can think of with a ache in my gut is if it was my husband…. I’d likely be dead by morning. Either at my own hand, or cut down by whoever was left after I tore through them.
I.. I don’t know what to do. I can’t get to her. I can’t DO anything, damn it. All I can think of is just to get as many souls reaching for them all as possible.
There is no happy ending to this that I can see.
