Okay, hey, it's Mark and I haven't been to available lately, but I imagine most of you

know that Lynn Shelton died at about 12.45 a.m. on Saturday morning. She was my

partner. She was my girlfriend. She was my friend and I loved her. I loved her a

lot. She loved me and I knew that and I don't know that I'd ever felt what I

felt with her before. I do know actually I did not. I have not. And I was getting

used to love in the way of being able to accept it and show it properly in an

intimate relationship. I was so comfortable with this person with Lynn Shelton.

And I'm not really that comfortable emotionally or otherwise, but I was. I was

able to exist in a state of self-acceptance because of her love for me. And I

made her laugh all the time. And she made me laugh and we were happy. We laughed a

lot. We played crazy eights. We cooked food together. We traveled. We wrote. I'll

talk more about things we did together, but I just wanted you guys to know

because the last time I talked to you, I thought she had like strep throat. She

thought she had strep throat. And we went immediately. She went immediately and

got a COVID-19 test and it was negative. And she met with her doctor online and

you know, we treated it as strep throat. You know, and on Thursday, I said we

got, you know, we've got to go in. We've got, I don't know why this fever isn't

going down. And she made an appointment to go in the next day. So we were going to

go to the doctor for blood tests on Friday. And then in the middle of the night, I

heard her collapsing the hallway on her way to the bathroom and I got up and she

was on the floor and she couldn't move. She was conscious, but delirious a bit. I

called 911. They came and they got her and that was the last time I saw her

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