I knew ignorance and intolerance killed. I knew it but somehow I didn't understand it until yesterday.

The news of your death took me by surprise. I was at work, I read about it and suddenly there was nothing else for me. I couldn't concentrate on anything else. I hardly knew you, I didn't follow you, but somehow your name, your profile picture were familiar.

I wasn't even one of your friends, but that made the blow even worse. To me you were all those faces we see daily, that we expect to always be there, you were each and any one of us, and somehow that makes your loss even more insufferable.

Goodbye Natalie, whom I didn't know but will remember.