The chain of sudden tragedies seem to be continuing.
It all started with the absolutely shocking death of our classmate Simon on June 2 at age 19, a piece of news we duly received in the e-mail, and the oh-so mysterious Air France crash whose causes still seem indeterminable; and then came Luo Jing, my favourite childhood news anchor and somewhat of a legend, at age 47. Then, unnervingly close to where I work, three teens from the local High School who died in a single-vehicle crash, followed by deaths of international sex icon Farrah Fawcett and pop-king Michael Jackson, both within the past 24 hours. This also occured in combination with the death of Romeo Leblanc, Canada's former governor general, who died yesterday to natural causes. Now, fittingly, most flags across Canada are at half-mast.
Today, while filling up for gas at the SuperStore gas bar, the lady at the counter didn't even greet me. All she mustered was, "So tragic". I didn't reply.
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