"You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "conti… - Mitch Albom

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.