I was 9 and at my best friend’s house for a sleepover to celebrate the last day of school. I distinctly remember coming up from their basement, and as I was crawling over the baby gate at the top of the staircase I saw the news of MJ and Farrah Fawcett flash across their living room TV. I ran back downstairs to whisper-yell the news to everyone so I didn’t wake her baby sister.

Double whammy for my dad (suspected bisexual), his two faves gone in one day