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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 79171" data-attributes="member: 27">There are several documentary-type shows being aired on TV telling essentially the same story over and over, yet I sit through most of them simply because I admired her a great deal.The evening of her car crash (20 years ago!?!) I was planning to attend the grand opening of a roller skating rink.&nbsp; It was a small college town, so this was kind of a big deal for us. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />&nbsp; Anyway, I was trying on my skates while I had CNN on, when the anchor (an overly-tanned man named Linden Soles--funny how you remember such details) reported the crash, offering the information simply as her &quot;possibly being injured&quot; (since that was all they knew at the time).&nbsp; I started watching the bits and pieces of news filtering in and soon lost interest in the skating rink.&nbsp; I sat there in my skates watching CNN, ultimately staying up all night long as the story was reported.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I ever did go to that skating rink.I had to work the next day, but since we were between semesters at the university, work schedules at the Student Union was kind of unstructured...thank goodness.&nbsp; I wandered into the offices and the receptionist started crying when I brought up the news.&nbsp; She said she&#039;d been at home crying the night before and was as sleep-deprived as I was, and it did not help that she was in her third trimester--her &quot;pregnant crying jags&quot; were legendary.&nbsp; We Southern men tend to fold up like a cheap tent when a woman starts crying, so we could barely interact with one another all week because the news was just so sad.&nbsp; I&#039;d cry if she started crying.&nbsp; The whole staff tip-toed around her.We got ZERO work done that week, and after the funeral took place we only had one week to prepare for the return of all the student organizations and re-open the building...so we were running around like crazy people to get orientation set up on time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 79171, member: 27"] There are several documentary-type shows being aired on TV telling essentially the same story over and over, yet I sit through most of them simply because I admired her a great deal. The evening of her car crash ([I]20 years ago[/I]!?!) I was planning to attend the grand opening of a roller skating rink. It was a small college town, so this was kind of a big deal for us. :rolleyes: Anyway, I was trying on my skates while I had CNN on, when the anchor (an overly-tanned man named Linden Soles--funny how you remember such details) reported the crash, offering the information simply as her "possibly being injured" (since that was all they knew at the time). I started watching the bits and pieces of news filtering in and soon lost interest in the skating rink. I sat there in my skates watching CNN, ultimately staying up all night long as the story was reported. I don't think I ever did go to that skating rink. I had to work the next day, but since we were between semesters at the university, work schedules at the Student Union was kind of unstructured...thank goodness. I wandered into the offices and the receptionist started crying when I brought up the news. She said she'd been at home crying the night before and was as sleep-deprived as I was, and it did not help that she was in her third trimester--her "pregnant crying jags" were legendary. We Southern men tend to fold up like a cheap tent when a woman starts crying, so we could barely interact with one another all week because the news was just so sad. I'd cry if she started crying. The whole staff tip-toed around her. We got ZERO work done that week, and after the funeral took place we only had one week to prepare for the return of all the student organizations and re-open the building...so we were running around like crazy people to get orientation set up on time. [/QUOTE]

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