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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't it part of the human condition to care?

A lot of people have memories connected to Friends. I have memories of crowding around a tv in a dorm room on Thursday nights and watching Friends. I think people also turned to Friends when they needed to be comforted or needed a laugh.

Saying that, I often feel upset when people I don't know. Murder, cancer, animal cruelty, child abuse, etc. It comes from a place of feeling that this shouldn't have happened and it shouldn't be this way. I don't have to know someone to feel something for them.[/quote]

I think this. I’m 10 years younger than Matthew Perry was, and I remember Friends as one of the significant entertainment “seasons” of my life. My university best friend got “The Rachel” haircut. My university boyfriend and I made a point to watch the episode where Chandler and Monica got engaged. It was kind of a cultural moment of a generation. We’re all older and in different places in our lives now, but at least for myself, I don’t feel SO old that my peers or idols should be dying yet - my first parent to die only did so last year. It just feels wrong that he’s gone so young. [/quote]

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