In her Slight Detour blog today, Marianne Love offers a poignant post about a classmate that was killed in a car accident in Sandpoint more than 50 years ago: "I'm almost certain that today would have been Karen Fredstrom's 67th birthday.  She lived only through her sophomore year in high school, but her memory has lived on in the minds of the rest of her classmates all these years later, especially those of us who attended Lincoln Elementary School. One summer Saturday night in June, 1963, Karen was tragically killed in a car accident near the old A & W Root Beer Stand, now Schweitzer Conoco. Her cousin also died in the accident. Karen's death was the first experience of losing someone so close for most of her classmates.  It was difficult, to say the least." Full post here.

Question: Did the loss of a classmate during your high school years still have an impact on you today?