Life Imitates Art

[Eno Redrum]

For those of you that donot know, Eno is based loosely on myself. His daughter, Jordan, is the name of my daughter. His son Brandon, is also the name of my son. Now here comes the heartbreaking part.

I received a call this moring about 4am while I was at workabout an accident. two of my cousins, and their children, were taking their kids and mine down to the coast for the rest of the week to a condo my family has down there. They were cut off by another car, causing one of my cousins to swerve and go off of the road. Their car rolled down the side of the hill and everyone was killed.

In a blink of an eye, I lost both of my children, my two cousins as well as their children. Needlessly to say, I may be absent from the boards for awhile, but still plan on writing for my upcoming matches. If I seem out-of-sorts, I am sure you will all understand why.

All I ask of all of you is two things. First, keep me in your prayers, this is not going to be easy for me as my children were my life. Ask Marcus and he can tell you that I work so they can have more than I did growing up. Secondly, I ask that all of you not take for granted the time you have with your family, friends and loved ones. You never know when you or them will be taken from this life. Live each day with them as if it were the last one and never leave them wondering if you love them. Let that be ABSOLUTELY clear to them.

I will talk to you all soon. Right now, I need to try and get some sleep as I will be leaving to go down later today to make fineral arrangements. I should be back on Thursday or Friday. Take care everyone and know that I consider each and everyone one of you a friend.

[Marcus T]

you have to be kidding me... this is unreal.

I hate to hear about your lost man.

[katutui]

DAMN! I'm sorry man. I don't even know the words to say to a man who just lost his children, I'll pray for you and your family, and if you need time off, you should take it, death of your children is more important than some silly online hobby y'know, so don't rush yourself, just take your time to grieve and we will welcome you back with open arms.

God be with you.

[Kingpin]

This is a tragedy. I can only imigaine how you feel. Don't worry about us. Just take your time. We are with you, take care

[Tommy "Southpaw" O'Malley]

Yeah, there's not much one really can say, because its just a speechless event.

Again, thoughts and prayers are with you.

[gwp]

My thoughts and prayers are with you ...

[Eno Redrum]

I wanted to take the time to thank each and every one of you that has either posted a message on this board or the Juggernaut board in support of me during this time. I also wanted to thank those that have called me, emailed me or sent private messages. You do not know how much that means to me. I also wanted to share a little insight with you guys about me, my children and EFedding.

I have always been a wrestling fan (not really a big fan of what is on TV now, ut that is a subject for a different time) and wrestling was something that my daughter, son and I would always watch or go to together. It was one of our special bonds.

Anyway, i was watching a match with my daughter one day and made the comment that I thought the script writing was horrible and I could thnk of ten things off the top of my head that would have been better. She looked at my and gave me her version of the "People's Eyebrow" and simply said, "Why don't you do it then daddy?" With that, I began my quest into EFedding.

I started the character Eno Redrum and have never put him down. Jordan was my biggest fan, she even came up with the idea of making her a ghost somehow because she thought ghosts were cool. That is when I came up with the idea of Eno losing his family, his wife and son first, then his daughter a year later. Jordan was a great inspiration and gave me many of the things you see her saying in my RPs.

My son, Brandon, just simply liked the fact that I wrote a story that had him in it. He never got in to the ins or outs of how things worked, just liked the fact that he was part of it.

Anyway, with all that has happened, I asked myself if it was time to retire from EFedding all together and move on to other things like the book I have been writing since I met most of you. I have thought about it long and hard and have come to the following conclusion below.

I will not give up EFedding, at least not anytime soon. This is a bond I shared with my children, mostly my daughter. It is a part of who I am and in some small way it was a part of who they were. At one time, my daughter wanted to join a fed and be a part of it, but I was currently working the Dragzilla angle (10 times worse than what you see now, just ask Kingpin) and I did not want her to be a part of that.

Eno will live on as a tribute to my daughter Jordan and my son Brandon. Dragzilla will live on, Shaka (fill in the rest of the name here) will live on. I will also dedicate my performance in the BKI Tournament to them and hope to put forth my best work during that tournament in hopes that it would be pleasing to them and they would find it worthy no matter if I win or get beat.

Bottom line, it is one thing I have left of them that still burns bright and I will not extinguish that flame any time soon.

Again, thank you for all your words of encouragement during this dark time in my life. Even if we have never met face to face or spoke to one another, I consider you all friends.

To Marcus and Ray, I will be back in town sometime on Thursday after the funeral. I will give you guys a call or you can call me after 5pm. If anyone else would like to contact me, just tell me and I will shoot you a private message with my cell number.

[Kingpin]

No thanks needed. My support is a foregone conclusion, I am down like four flat tires

[omegaacb]

Wow! I honestly don't know what to say except we all will be here for you. If you need anyone else to talk to and releive stress, just drop me a line. You and yours will be in my thoughts.