How Do I Respond To That?

I'm at a users group conference this week. No it isn't a bunch of druggies extolling the virtues of some mind altering chemical. I'm in the software business and I'm communing with my peoples. I've been in this industry for 28 years now. And today I got some very sad news.

I introduced myself to a woman who had spoken earlier in the day. She was from the first newspaper I ever worked at. The first person I remembered and mentioned, she informed me had died suddenly, during the night a couple of years ago.

The woman had been the age I am now.