February 27th, 2024

This is a really bad entry, I didn't think it would get worse from my last one hahahahahahahahha. Claudia's dead. Mae found the report of her death. She died the day after her last message on August 16th, and her death report wasn't released until January 22nd, and then we didn't find it until February 26th. So. Yeah. Yeah. That happened!

Theres a lot to unpack here. First, it was 6 fucking months. 194 days we didn't know. Claudia was always a drug addict, but she'd been trying to get clean. She got a job and was working on getting her GED. We thought when she disappeared, her mom must have sent her to rehab or somewhere where she couldn't be online or tell us. I didn't expect she died the very day after her last message was sent. It could've even been the same day, and her body just wasn't discovered til the day after. I miss not knowing. I miss thinking Claudia was away bettering herself, or she had a really bad mental break and left the internet but she'd come back, or maybe she'd be gone forever but she wouldn't be dead. She'd be alive somewhere.