<em> And so the end of life as we had known it began.  Whatever problems or dilemas that seemed insurmountable just a week ago, suddenly became almost comical in comparison to what we face now...which is assumably the end of the world.  <br/>  Carla finally died last night.  I say finally, only because after I watched her suffer in gruesome agony for nearly two days, "finally".... was a blessing.  Mandy had been sleeping alot lately,  another blessing really... no further signs of her health getting worse.  According to the now defunct "Emergency Broadcast System", which for two or three days, did nothing but repeat on a continual loop,  the  signs and stages of the deadly "super flu", if Mandy had it... she'd be dead by now. <br/><br/><br/> I can't decide whether or not we're lucky or cursed to have apparantly been granted immunity from this bitch.......</em><br/><br/><br/>Delilah closed the soft, aged red leather journal and placed it under her pillow before she glanced over at Mandy, who now slept with her in her big King sized bed, and checked- again- that she was still breathing.<em> Thank God</em>she sighed before she closed her eyes.  She hoped to find a few hours of peaceful rest without the strange dreams that had invaded her sleep the past couple of days.....