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" In June, Pam Gates died at twenty-two years old. She had been fending off lupus for three years, but after a second heart attack, she had slipped into a coma. At her funeral, everybody was overcome with joy, her brother Antonio told The Los Angeles Times, in an article published yesterday and very much worth your time. &amp;quot;She was an unbelieveable person. She was a very funny person too,&amp;quot; said Antonio, the San Diego Charger and one of the best tight ends to ever play in the National Football League, who stayed at her bedside with his and her parents and two other siblings until she passed. &amp;quot;We were actually laughing at the funeral. Couldn&amp;#039;t stop laughing. Something had happened that was funny, and we were in the front row just cracking up.&amp;quot; In Pam&amp;#039;s final years and days, Antonio learned something. As the Times wrote: &amp;quot;It changed me a whole lot in terms of communicating with my family, being involved more with my other siblings,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It just taught me a valuable lesson about sometimes you&amp;#039;ve got to give flowers while people are still here to appreciate them.&amp;quot; This is a lesson that is particularly poignant during these few weeks, during which we have seen a haunting number of deaths that came too soon\u2014in America cities small and large, in the Middle East, and with a man not quite young, among others. It is also a lesson worth remembering regardless of the news: Love people while they&amp;#039;re with you. There is no better time. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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