Deaths on an internet forum like this are sober reminders that there are real people behind these usernames. Of course, I know you are all real...but dealing with a digital persona still makes things a little less personal. While a lot of you have matured, graduated, gotten new jobs, lost your own loved ones, and lives have generally kept moving, I still picture you all in the way that I did when I first joined the forum years ago. I'm not sure I ever consider any of you dieing, so when it actually happens...it hits a very strange nerve in my mind. I'll never see Howard again...but I never saw him in the first place. It's very surreal and hard to put into words.
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Confusion will be my epitaph...
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