Remembering Linda

I doubt that I am alone in this, but when the sad occurrence of a Beatle or a Beatle related person passes away, I can vividly remember where I was and what I was doing when I learned of the news. I was a senior in college in 1998 when Linda McCartney passed away. I was sitting in my apartment, working on something for a class when my roommate, Annette, came in and said something like "I guess you are sad about Linda McCartney?" And I said, "what are you talking about?" And she said, "I just heard that she died. I figured you would have already known." Then I started to yell at Annette for saying such a mean thing about Linda. It couldn't have been true. I had just been on a Beatles chat room earlier in the evening and someone would have said something if it was true. Annette was just being mean and I didn't appreciate it. But I knew that my roommate wasn't a mean person, and who jokes about something so serious? I literally ran to the library on campus (I didn't own my own computer back then....really not many people that I knew did. We all used the computer labs). I got on a news related website and read the truth: Linda McCartney had lost her battle with cancer. I sat there in the library computer lab of Eastern Illinois University and wept. I know people were looking at me, but I didn't care. I cried for Paul, their children and for all of us fans around the world. I cried because I would never get the chance to see Linda in concert with Paul. I cried because there would never be another album with Linda's photography on the cover. I cried because she was just too young and vivacious to have died. 13 years later and I still am sad that Linda isn't around.