Responses after the break.

1) Dazzling.

2) It was… strange. My friend’s wife was oddly pleased that I attended. She said she always felt badly for treating me so poorly. Said that she’d heard so many stories about me.

The music that played during the funeral was very odd as well. Very fitting to the stallion, as I remember him, but certainly not something you’d ordinarily hear during a service.

The mother was heartbroken, of course, and we cried together. Turns out the father had died roughly one year ago.

3) No, I haven’t. Don’t really have any intention to.

4) Life will always be life. Beautiful, but filled with strife.

5) I cannot even put it into words.

I’m not even going to bother asking how some of you anons evidently knew this was going to happen.

6) Better than them all taking place on a Saturday. Or how someponies seem to act like events that took place over the course of a few days all took place one after the other on the same day.

7) I’d still rather use omitted surrounded by brackets.

8) I haven’t decided yet. I want to ground her for a month, but at the same time the only reason it happened is because she’s too young to fully grasp the real consequences of death. Part of me just wants to let it go. I guess it depends on her behavior over the next few days.

Speaking of which, I saw Cheerilee and Big Mac together on a picnic when Boscov and I were out on ours. And I thought I heard Sweetie Belle shout something nearby.

9 & 10) Thanks.