trenting with my first niece... and this was a hard one.

The TV show opened with the dyslexic GBI agent's hands covered in dried blood.

That's never a good start.

Then, when the title page made its appearance, the tone was set.

 

He had stepped into an elevator at the GBI office and the closing doors shone a horrific spotlight on his state of mind.

The title page was upside-down.

Yes, that was a sure sign of bad things to be revealed.

"Best Of Your Recollection" (s3 e11) was the episode tonight.

For most of that episode, he was being questioned about firing his gun in an apartment building while trying to apprehend a felon.

The problem was this: a stray bullet had landed in the chest of a teen boy, playing a video game while playing hookie from school.

Damn.

Christina and I were both in tears at several points in the story.

Damn.

Such a hard, hard episode to watch.

I'm glad she and I were watching it 'together', but I would have rather we were physically in the same space, so we could have hugged and consoled each other.

That meant we had to do our own loss adjustment.

I turned to music.

It took a while, but I finally composed a youTube mix-list that worked to calm me.

Here it is, in case I should want it again.

 

Muse: Madness

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The Airborne Toxic Effect: Sometime Around Midnight

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Garbage: Push It

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Evanescence: Bring Me To Life

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Sarah McLachlan: Possession

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Ozzy Osbourne and Lila Ford: If I Close My Eyes Forever