Déjà vu, except that déjà vu is an illusion and these partings have been all too real.
  
I always resented that David Copperfield got to take long walks by the sea when he was bereaved, while in reality we have to soldier on with every sad thing that happens (there was a male vs female bias to my resentment, too, but that’s not relevant here).  Good thing this happened today instead of tomorrow when I will be gone camping for a week.  Now instead of coming back to a shock, I can take long, sad, David Copperfieldish walks and hopefully come to grips with it by then.
                  
I’m so happy for kc that this was apparently all he wanted it to be.  (Except perhaps for participants.  I blame Twitter in part for that.)  And I appreciate John Furnari’s affirmation of what was made here – he is in the best position to know how good it was. 

GPN will be out there in the spotlight, easy to find.  I hope those of us who don’t have any personal claim on kc see him again somewhere soon, and that he wants to be recognized.