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Slow Motion Nuclear Disaster

I don't even know how to say it, or what to say. My husband died by suicide. He was at home on Kaua'i. I was visiting family on the mainland with the kids. Thank god we weren't there when he did it. Thank god we didn't see it. We didn't find him. I called the police when I hadn't heard from him for 24 hours. He had seemed stressed, but okay. He sent me cute pictures of our cat, peeking out of a cloth grocery bag. The police called me back at 1:30 am. I spent the night calling family and throwing up. Two days later we were on the airplane, with my sisters, going back to.... what? Clean out the house, retrieve his (young, perfectly healthy, 37 year old) body from the hospital morgue, hold a memorial, say goodbye to the place where we lived for ten years, where my kids were born. We had to leave our house-- it was on the UH ag station farm-- 150 acres of pasture, fruit trees, and a reservoir-- and we had a weekend to throw it all into a container-- m