Sad news ...

Today was a really depressing day at work.

The daughter of one of the long-time photographers at work was killed on Sunday. She was a student at Boston University, but she was killed in a bus crash while studying abroad in Peru. Everybody at work is shocked by it.

I came into work today and there was a company-wide e-mail about it in my inbox. My editor instantly called his daughter and asked her to go out to lunch with him, and another editor was telling him that it’s definitely a “hug your daughter” day.

My parents are on a two-week cruise of Italy and the Greek Isles right now, so I certainly can’t go hang out with my Dad, which would probably make me feel better about the whole thing. But it’s depressing because everybody at work is about the same age as my parents, and they keep talking about how it’s “a parent’s worst nightmare to lose a child.”

I agree. It’s awful. And I feel really terrible for this guy. I found out today that his family has another kid too, one other daughter. I was thinking about sending her a card, even though I don’t know her.

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/434615.html

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