I also can’t imagine how his actual friends and family feel. I’m really upset and I wasn’t even friends with him. They must be absolutely devastated. But I’m also not friends with any of them. I’m just in shock and he had SUCH a bright future and he was literally already achieving his dreams and he was just so awesome and fun. This totally blindsided me

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i had this happen to me a few years ago. it was a tree fall accident and he used to be the one drive me with his friend to get McD for lunch. that was the only time i ever spent with him was when he drove me there a few times bc we had a mutual friend and shared the class before lunch… “hometown” by halsey helped me get through a lot of that strange feeling of adjacent loss after a few years passed.

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I had a friend who I was more close with my senior year but wasn’t very close (idk if that makes sense at all) pass away this summer. We didn’t know each other that well but we were just starting to get closer. He’s the frist person of my age I had ever lost that was my age. I took it really hard bc of this. None of my family knew him so I did a lot of walking alone and thinking of what I would say to him if he were still here. It helped me to still feel connected to him.

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Well there’s ya know… his family that’s also mourning.

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