This place is evil...

And I don't think I could ever be convinced otherwise at this point.

I've experienced my own fair share of painful experiences, of which I would never wish on the most wicked people on this planet, but what happened yesterday really sealed the deal of my opinion, and it wasn't even my personal tragedy.

My mother remarried a little over ten years ago, and I have a stepsister as a result of it. We're not very close for personal and logistical reasons, but she's family. Last night, I received a call from my biological brother, asking me if I had heard any of the news of what had happened earlier that day. I hadn't, and I said as much, and he just... unloaded.

My step-father's ex-wife and the mother of their adopted daughter (my stepsister) had been in a brutal car accident and died on the scene earlier that morning on her way to her new job. To make the already awful matters even worse, my brother informed me that it was my stepsister's birthday.

I never even met my sister's mother and wouldn't know her if I passed her on the street, but the way I broke down and started hate-crying for her and my sister was *visceral.* Just the thought of waking up on my birthday to be given the news that my mother had died horribly... I couldn't imagine.

I don't claim to know what's going on here, but I am 100% convinced that it is *nothing* good. If there is a God, *he* will have to beg for *my* forgiveness.