re: Have you or someone you know ever experienced a series of unfortunate events?

My ex girlfriend's sister had a doozy of a year. In a one year period her best friend died in a car crash, her boyfriend died of some rare infection that caused both of his lungs to simultaneously collapse, her grandmother died, and her sister committed suicide.

Current girlfriend also had a tough go of things back in high school. She lost two of her grandparents, her mother (cancer), and her aunt (suicide) all in a short span of time. I have a lot of admiration for people who persevere in the face of such tragedy.