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Someone I know suffered 2 tragic losses recently under hideous, unbelievable circumstances. Having just returned with their friend P from the funeral of one of the victims, they wrote the following. The subject heading of the mail was "The first good thing."

Something cool just happened here. The doorbell rang. That never happens, because there are something like 19 keys to my house and whenever someone comes here, they usually just knock once or twice and then let themselves in. The doorbell is usually reserved for the Saturday morning visits of religious zealots and other such crap.
But today it rang, P and I both answered, and it was this cute little Girl Scout. She was very young so I think it was her first year out of the Brownies and into Scouts. Her mom was with her, but the little girl did all the talking. You know the whole GS cookie pitch, and she ended by saying I know someone has already been to your neighborhood, but maybe you could just buy one more box from me?
P and I just kind of looked at each other sideways. I told the kid that we have not been home a lot this week so we have not ordered cookies yet. She jumped up and down clapping, so excited that she might get a sale. She looked at her mom and said, Maybe they will order three or four! Her mom told her not to be rude.
P and I looked at each other again and he said, What do you think, 20 boxes? and I said, No. Better make it 50 boxes. And we did. We ordered 50 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from this girl. You should have seen her face. It was the best thing I have seen since Christmas.
Our cookies will be here on Feb. 8th.
And I hope you like GS cookies because there will be tons heading your way.