As the world so desperately mourned those 7 selected, it waited in disbelief as Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, while quoting Peggy Noonan said so hauntingly and eloquently..."We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them...as they 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'" I was 7 when I first read these words, and although I didn't quite understand, my brother, who has since slipped, tried to paint a picture of purest goodbye. The gut-wrenching moments of goodbye that rip us from normal and place us in an alternate reality. Our new home...our new normal. It would be many years later, that fateful day he touched the Almighty's face, that I grew to understand. It appears that 2019 is shaping up to be a very trying year. From the first day, as we said goodbye to my aunt, when just moments before she was giggling Happy New Year to her son, till now when I hear rancid reports of my cousin being