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"For you, a thousand times over."

- The Kite Runner

alex rest in paradise.. ima miss you bruh

Slain man was helping friend
By: Tamara Barak Aparton
Examiner Staff Writer
04/19/09 3:28 PM

Friends and family members could always count on Alexander Apalit, an ambitious, affable 21-year-old who fixed their cars, helped them move and offered them rides.

It was Apalit’s desire to help, his family said, that led to him being fatally shooting Saturday night near Balboa Park.

Apalit was a passenger in a vehicle traveling near Otsego and Santa Ynez avenues when a carload of young men in a dark, four-door sedan with tinted windows — possibly an Infinity Q35 — opened fire at 9:15 p.m., San Francisco police Sgt. Wilfred Williams said. Apalit died a short time later at San Francisco General Hospital. No arrests have been made.

Apalit’s mother said her son lived with his family in Daly City. He had been eating dinner with his cousin and a friend when the friend’s teenage brother called to say he was being chased in San Francisco by group of young men. The trio drove to The City and picked up the teen boy. The suspects gave chase in the sedan, firing four or five shots toward the car.

Apalit, who was sitting behind the driver, was shot in the chest.

His companions rushed him to the nearest emergency room, St. Luke’s, where his mother said he was turned away. He was taken by ambulance from St. Luke’s to San Francisco’s only trauma center, General Hospital.

“I’m really upset about that,” his mother said. “He was struggling, but he was still breathing when he was at St. Luke’s. They’re an emergency room; couldn’t they help him anyway?”

St. Luke’s spokesman Kevin McCormack said privacy laws prevented him from commenting, but he could not imagine the injured man would be turned away.

“Emergency rooms, by law, have to treat whoever comes in,” McCormack said. “They would be treated and stabilized and sent on somewhere else if appropriate. Obviously, the place to send someone in San Francisco with gunshot wounds is San Francisco General.”

Apalit grew up in The City and attended Sacred Heart Cathedral High School, where he played football and set a school record in the long jump. He had worked as an automotive technician since 2007. Last fall, Apalit and two cousins started a party-bus business, shuttling revelers to various nightclubs in The City, his mother said.

Police described the suspects as three young Hispanic men, including the car’s driver, who wore a green hooded sweatshirt, and a stocky man about 6-feet tall. A fourth suspect is described as a young black man with a dark complexion and dreadlocks. The description of a fifth suspect is unclear.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Department’s anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444.

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"this is pretty good for a bad idea"

To all the men I have ever loved...

To all the men I have ever loved,

I give you a round of applause
for dealing with the s**t I put you through,
for dealing with my constant rambling nonsense.

I go through pictures,
through videos,
through pages in my journal,
with the words smeared from fallen tears,
from the pain of love,
from the thought of "forever"...

this is for the men that I still do love,
the same men that I "loved."

I still love.

I give my heart to every person that has cared for me,
in a way only two people can care for,
in a way when no one else matters.

I give my heart away to every person I never said, "I love you," to,
because ya'll didn't know I really do.
I don't say it for fear of rejection,
just the type of person I am,
the person the stars created me,
a Libra.
Love to Love,
yet I'm shy as hell to tell you,
and you, and you , and you. (pwahahhah i love too much)

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i don't know where this is going.

hi.

this is a little message to you, matthew..
in hopes you would see it in time..
but i'm assuming you'll have work tomorrow (friday, april 10th)..
but i'll extend the invite anyway.
since i can't call you, for you are now phoneless like me..
and since you're not on AIM at the moment, i'll tell you here.

so tomorrow, ana, daniel and i will be going to a hospital, where daniel volunteers at in sf, and we wanted to know if you'd like to come along.
we'll be helping out patients express their emotions through art, an art therapy session. it'll be around 4pm.
and then after we're going to this art show around 7pm.
so if you'd like to go, let us know. :}