Until The Next Life, Adrianne

I have a habit of ignoring important feelings.

It's how I deal with things that are hard to comprehend. The other way is writing. I struggled with what blog I should write this under. Path Less Taken, or Tentman. Then I realized it doesn't even matter.
I just need to get this out in words.

The details are now out about how a friend from high school was murdered, and stories are popping up all over the web.
When I heard last week that homicide was on the case, i questioned whether I wanted to know the details. I have no precedent personally, but I assumed that maybe it would be better if I could just imagine my own better version of how things transpired.
Unfortunately I was right.

You always read these stories. You never think you're going to know the person you read about.
Reading the article, memories start coming back.

The smile and laugh that sets them apart from everyone else you know.
Sitting together in English and making driving noises when the big trucks went by our room. Dating for a week freshman year, and being silly and immature, but still being cool enough to be friends after.

And then you read the dark details, and wonder just how in the hell someone so vibrant, with so much going on in life, can have
things end so abruptly, and in such horrible fashion. The situation is just not fair, and I am mortified for her family, and her would-be fiance.

Adrianne, not much can be said that hasn't already. We miss you and are so sorry that things had to end this way. I hope you are in a peaceful place.
See you when we get there.

krp

From the Sun Journal:
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Adrianne Robert, 29, of Clearwater, a former resident of Greene and Lewiston, went home to her Lord on Saturday, July 14, at her home.


Adrianne Robert

She was born in Brunswick, Jan. 4, 1983, the beloved daughter of Mark and Delores (Dimino) Robert. Attending local schools, Adrianne was a graduate of Leavitt High School, Class of 2001, and a graduate from the University of Maine at Augusta, Class of 2005. Moving to Florida in 2007, she also attended the University of Southern Florida, St. Petersburg.

A gifted artist and graphic designer, Adrianne’s passion for the arts allowed her to pursue her dreams of working in the graphic design and marketing industry. Starting her brilliant career in Lewiston, she was employed by the Lewiston Sun Journal as a page designer, followed by her employment at several well-known and well established businesses within various Florida communities, including work at the Hilton Hotel as the E-Commerce manager as well as their director of catering and marketing, Gaspers Grotto as the assistant event coordinator and the Holiday Inn Development Corp., as marketing manager. Her successful creativity in the marketing industry along with her drive and passion to help promote small businesses, allowed her to start her own company, Splatter Concepts Incorporated, which she managed with love, pride and commitment, a spirit which could be felt by all who worked alongside her.

Her dedication to her career did not prevent her from enjoying life. An avid runner, Adrianne competed in several running events with close friends. She enjoyed photography and painting, traveling, as well as spending time with her family and the many wonderful and dear friends who would soon become a part of her own extended family. Having found the man of her dreams, Adrianne was to spend the rest of her life with her loving fiance, Justin Pounders. Justin and Adrianne were a shining example of love at first sight and that true love does exist. Her passion for life and the spark she shared with those who were lucky enough to have known her will be an everlasting testament of how she lived, living each day as if it was her last. She will be sadly missed but her loving memory will live on forever.

Adrianne is survived by her loving parents, Mark and Lori Robert of Greene; her brother, James Michael Martin and his wife, D.J., of Lisbon; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Robert; a great-aunt, Lorraine Philippon; her aunt and uncle, Ron and Cindy Boisvert; an aunt, Pat McCutcheon; one nephew, James Dillon; her fiance, Justin Pounders of St. Petersburg, Fla.; several cousins; and many friends.

Adrianne was predeceased by her maternal grandparents, Hazel and Carl Dimino.