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I have the good fortune, and I suppose in some ways the burden of knowing a lot of people and sometimes that can be a burden in the sense that while you share celebratory moments I'm also someone that people will send bad news to as well so it can seem like it all starts to pile up several of my friends

were themselves or friends with the father of or their kids friends with the victim of a tragic

accident in colorado a couple of days ago.

And it was involving a young man, I believe, he was at TCU,

and he was a pledge brother of some kids that I know there.

High school classmate, I guess,

of some other kids and their parents that I know.

And it is just one of those reminders.

Life is precious.

And it can be over before you know it i lost classmates in high school

that's a that's a misfortune um i lost classmates shortly after high school i remember

donnie danny donovan died on a motorcycle. I think he was on Main Street in

Viter when we were about 19. And that was the first one that really, you know, somebody that I knew

somewhat well who had passed. And then Richard Church hit a deer on a farm to

market road and midnight coming home from work. He was in a little Toyota truck and he hit this

deer head on. There was no lighting out on the, I mean, you know, you see these stories and, and, and he was

gone.

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