I received in my inbox a very depressing email.

A young girl I went to school with that was criticized for her smarts and her good looks never really fit in to her class. Our group of friends took her under our wings as she had started the school year late. Her father was a doctor and her family was from Korea.

Two strikes against her besides the fact that she was very pretty and smart as a whip. She knew everything in Science and Biology. In fact I wouldn't' be surprised to find out that she was smarter then the teachers who were teaching those exact classes.

I found out today that this young girl who had her whole life ahead of her...and graduated two years before she was supposed to had passed away only a few days ago. I lost touch with her long ago when I was only 19. She went on to go to University and graduate in microbiology.

She was 25 and was living a full life with her partner Jason. She had her entire life ahead of her...it makes it hard to believe someone two years younger then me has passed away. I do not know how she passed away, if it was from some terrible accident. Am still trying to find that out.

It makes me really look at life and makes me wanna spend every moment living it to the fullest as you never know when it is going to end.

I want to send out a prayer to her family and those she has left behind, and I am sorry I had lost touch with her. We were never close but she was a friend and our valedictorian at our Graduation. She will be missed by many and those that didn't get a chance to know her, you missed a wonderful lady.