"The Twenty-Third Day"
(A Dedication of Crushing thoughts)
Written on November 23rd, 2021
By Doctor Ricky 1024
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On December 6th, 1952.
Carolyn Ann Richmond was born.
One of eight, and the Second born of the Second litter.
Carolyn was loved and Carolyn was loved me knot?
By her Father Kenneth and her Mother Mildred.
...
Daddy's favorite, Carolyn Ann got the
Emenee Organ for Christmas that year of 1962.
(Of course while the other children got lesser presents)
And, of course this infuriated Mildred.
Why?
...
Yes!
"The Mommy Dearest Factor"
Yes!
And, basically?
"The Coat Hanger Treatment"
...
Now, after the nightly dinner.
Yes, of Ten.
It was young Carolyn's job to do the dishes.
And, as far as I Understand?
It wasn't just one night a week or two nights a week but every night.
And unfortunately, she was forced to stand there at a very young age.
And, as a result?
Sometimes wet herself.
...
This is why I entitled the mother.
"Mildred the Miserable!"
And, this would continue throughout Carolyn's life.
Yes, and even when she went off to college in Maryland.
The deal was after working the whole Summer of '69.
Three jobs.
(Byler's bicycle rentals, the T-Cone and
T- Burger)
And, saving her all money.
To go off to school, leave the car behind.
And, Millie would send her the amount of money.
Yes, she needed each week to get by.
Which unfortunately amounted to only $10 a week.
Causing Carolyn, great distressed and having to take a job.
Yes, while she was there the first semester.
This resulted unfortunately, of Carolyn dropping out and not getting her degree as a nurse.
"Mildred the Miserable"
...
In the Early Seventies when I was a young man.
Yes, and working as a Grocery Manager in a small supermarket.
Yes, in a small town.
In Ship bottom, New Jersey.
On Long Beach Island.
...
Note: L.B.I. Is an Eighteen-Mile.
Barrier Island consisting of a dozen municipalities.
Since it's a Barrier Island, there is only one way on one way off.
And, today?
It's a Multi-trillion dollar real estate and resort favorite.
(With the Europeans, the New Yorkers and Philadelphia's.
...
Being that I lived there and I also spent 36 years working there; now I basically grew up there in my adult years.
And, Carolyn noticed me interacting with my public as I would pack out my grocery shelves.
And she would wear different wigs.
(Four what she had all together)
...
About a decade would pass and I would have graduated high school.
(After dropping out at age 16)
And, continuing my Grocery Manager career.
I saved all my money and had CDs in the bank at 15 and a half percent interest.
Within just a few years.
I was able to buy the house that I lived in with my family.
And, at age 24.
Yes, there would absolutely be no mortgage for me!
I was becoming an established businessman thinking person.
...
But shortly before that.
I would go through a terrible breakup with a young woman named Susan Blick.
So, at age only Twenty.
I was still single, no longer a virgin, and on my way to my first nervous breakdown in 1983.
And, now this is actually where the Story begins!

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Yes it was a blind date.
And yes, I was basically deceived because the cashier Kathy Webb.
(Who I was interested)
Had decided to call me.
Telling me she wasn't feeling well and had a womanly problem that day.
Kathy then asked me if I could do her a favor.
And, take her girlfriend to the party.
Which I agreed.
...
The address was 9th Street in the small municipality called Surf City.
And, practically on the beach.
I would later learn that Carolyn was hiding out there from her first husband Michael Harbach.
She was getting State assistant and had two little girls both less than three years old.
(Nicole Megan and Kyle Erin Harbach)
...
So, now in my 1982 Chevrolet.
Practically and brand new Chevrolet Citation.
The four of us went to another municipality called Harvey Cedars.
The birthday party was for Sharon Kline.
(Klein Brothers Landscaping)
...
Now of course Sharon wasn't with her husband and had six children.
Her husband John Klein had a nervous breakdown and was in a mental hospital.
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Note: All of these things I would later learn about but at this point in time I had not a clue.
...
Now, John Kline was not going to become the problem.
Yes, since at the party.
I decided between the two women.
Carolyn had less children.
But Sharon was much more Pretty.
And, that didn't make a difference to me for True Beauty lies inside not outside.
...
A little bit of time would go by and this is when I learned the story.
(Which was quite amazing)
Between Carolyn and her husband Michael Harbach a heroin addict.
(AKA. Archie)
...
Since violence was involved, I asked her if she would like to utilize my three week vacation and go to Florida.
(Instead of continuing to hide?)
...
My mother Florence had moved to
Port Orange with my youngest brother Christopher.
And, had purchased a Double Wide trailer there with the $15,000 I gave her after paying off the mortgage on the house on Riptide Avenue in Manahawkin, New Jersey.
And, since i've never been there, we decided to drive of course.
...
The drive to Florida can be done in
Eighteen hours straight but we stopped in Florence, South Carolina.
And, spent the night.
The next day was utilized meeting with my mother and brother.
And, traveling back and forth.
(For three different weekly periods)
Yes, to the Disney World Vacation Resort complex on Route 4 of course in Orlando, Florida.
...
The next period of years would involve helping Carolyn divorce her husband and in 1983, 84 and 85?
Of course starting a family of Our Own.
Corinne Alexis, Jason Richard, and Dana Alyse.
Note: I decided on all the first names. And, Carolyn decided on the middle names.
Yes, for our two daughters from watching Dynasty and Dallas on T.V.

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We settled down nicely with our new family.
Yes, and we watched patiently.
As the children interacted together and grew up completing their various levels of school.
And, the older two going siblings Nikki and Corey and starting and continuing their education and Georgian Court college as well as Rutgers University.
...
And now unfortunately.
We move into the year of 2003 and the month of March.
This is the point in our marriage were our lives would be changed forever.
On March 31st, 2003 our son and only son.
Jason Richard will be involved as a passenger.
Yes, in a horrible car accident.
On Nautilus Avenue in the Ocean Acres section of Manahawkin, New Jersey.
...
Unfortunately nothing could be done to our only Son, Jason.
Hence, and only Seventeen hours later.
Jason was diagnosed by the state of New Jersey as "Brain-Dead"
...
So, as a result of all this and in another period of only Eight months.
My only wife of practically 20 years marriage.
Carolyn Ann Richmond Harbach Smrkovsky.
Had may the decision and decided three months before this horrible event.
To purposely stop her necessary medication.
And, again as a result?
...
Suicide by intentional lack of medication.
Thus causing two heart attacks.
And, also as a result?
Unfortunately a DVT.
(Deep Vernacular Thrombosis)
The blood clot of course from the leg to her Broken Heart.
"The Twenty-Third Day"
Approximate Word Count:1291.