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Because I never had the chance to say goodbye to Shira or to tell her how much I loved her, today I’m much more appreciative of my friends. I realize now, in a way that I couldn’t have last year, just how important each and every person in my life is. I’ve stopped spending time going to random parties and going out of my way to meet new people. I would much rather take the time I have and share it with the people I love. I think Shira would have...
...think the hardest challenge for me this year has been trying to move on and live a happy life when it seems as though my world had been darkened. More than anything though, Shira hated self-pity, to the point where she would yell at her best friends if they became too self-involved. As today, the one year anniversary of her death approached, I began to fall back into those feelings of sadness and even anger...
...difference now though, is that when I think about Shira and all the wonderful times we had together, the memories make me happy. It is only the memory of loss that hurts. I love talking about Shira, her elephant sweater, the time she and Mikey were “lost” in the snowy woods of New Hampshire or how she and Moshe used to argue incessantly. I remember Shira tap-dancing around all the time to the point where she inspired Ben to want to take tap classes. Then of course there were the beautiful Jane Austen...
...have so many strong memories of Shira, her smile, her strong opinions and of course, her singing and dancing. Shira’s gift in life was that she brought happiness wherever she went—her death hasn’t changed that...
...hateful toward other groups (putting a swastika up) and behaviors that simply make others feel their minority status (putting a Christmas tree up). The tree, unlike the swastika, is not an anti-Jewish symbol, and the message that came from all the disgruntled Leverittes, and the opinion piece by Shira D. Kieval ’04 (“Tree for Some, Thorn for Others,” Dec. 4), was not that the tree would make them feel hated, but that it would make them feel their minority status—their situation outside a celebration...