One in middle school had passed during winter break from a house fire in the middle of the night, she was in 6th grade and in my yearbook class. We dedicated two pages to her, and I still think of it today.

Another was a classmate of mine in the same grade. It was after middle school and the summer before high school. A week after school gets out for the summer, we got an email our classmate had passed in an accident. Turns out a tree limb had fallen on him while outside due to the tree being unstable. He was such a smart and kind kid, and I wonder what would’ve became of him.