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To: epicure who wrote (32601)7/20/1999 2:55:00 AM
From: jpmac  Respond to of 71178
 
I'm listening to George Straight singin', "all my exes live in Texas, and Texas is a place a dearly long to be, but all my exes live in Texas, therefore I reside in Tennessee", so I'm distracted. But I'll get back to this.

I agree about the overdoing and the celebrity thing, but I think there are people that many have a common feeling about. Sometimes it's someone that others don't think should have such attention. But it's not a bad thing for the country, or the world, to have a common moment of mourning. It's a way of linking together through a sense of caring for someone that stood for something, more than the person themselves.

Dang, that's ramblish, but it's on the track I'm trying to take. Too much c/w music and a long talk with a street boy tonight to make sense of it.



To: epicure who wrote (32601)7/20/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
My thought would be that when people weep for JFK Jr., they are really weeping for their own mortality. We don't think about it much, I believe, so when we are brought face to face with it, it's always a shock. I have a hard time believing that I will actually die, personally. And when a young person dies, someone younger than I, it reminds me that my time is short.

But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.