It’s not often that a piece of unexpected news can so completely blindside you. Two days ago, when I first heard of Zac Bertschy’s sudden death at home on Thursday May 21st 2020, I sat in silence for several minutes trying to process what I had just read. Bad news has a way of first wrapping you in numbness before icy tendrils start to squeeze at your heart and spike at your tear ducts. For the first time in my life I shed tears over a person I’d never met.
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