Y'all may have read about Katie, a Marquette University graduate that I had the pleasure of singing with in the Marquette Liturgical Choir while I was in college.
Katie entered the Poor Clares in Indiana, a cloistered order (translation: ridiculously limited contact with the outside world) on Sunday. I will never hear her gorgeous soprano voice sing the "Ave Maria" again.
Saturday evening I was lucky enough to catch Katie on chat in Gmail. As our all too short conversation was drawing to a close it hit me.
What do you say to someone that you will never talk to again?
People come into our lives and people go. An exchange over peaches in the produce aisle with a stranger will likely never happen with the same stranger again. But what do you say to someone, who saw you gain and lose the freshman 15 and all the other dramas of college life, knowing that you will never speak again?
Goodbye just didn't seem good enough.
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