The article recounts the author's poignant memory of learning about Kobe Bryant's death in a dense fog while traveling to LAX on January 26, 2020. The shock came as a jarring realization when the author's phone buzzed incessantly with the news. Overwhelmed with grief, the author shares their immediate emotional response through writing, recognizing the shared experience of mourning among countless others who remember where they were when they heard about the tragic helicopter crash that claimed Bryant, his daughter, and seven others. This narrative connects personal loss to wider communal grief.
"I began to write. I'm screaming right now, cursing into the sky, crying into my keyboard, and I don't care who knows it."
"So many of you remember exactly where you were on that Sunday afternoon when you heard that Bryant, 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a fog-shrouded Calabasas helicopter crash."
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