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Oh golly. I'm glad I was sitting down when I read this one.

Bernadette Peters is my all time favourite Broadway performer. I don't think she has the purest technique or beautiful voice, but she always puts such emotion into her singing and invests herselves in the lyrics. Something I admire a lot.

I was casually checking her bio on ibdb.com, when I read this

Wife of Michael Wittenberg (1996 - 2005) deceased

Her husband, Michael, was killed in a helicopter accident just 4 weeks ago, at the age of 43. It justs reminds me how none of us can plot and plan out where life is going to take us. It makes me all the more grateful for what time I have here and knowing that I can trust my eternity to God.

The heartwrenching thing is Bernadette went through with a charity concert just 3 weeks after the accident. I have several of her CDs and DVDs and so many of the songs would have take on a completely different meaning in the light of everything. *sigh*

"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on." (Move On, Sunday in the Park with George)

"Sometimes people leave you, halfway through the wood. Others may deceive you You decide what's good. You decide alone, But no one is alone." (No One is Alone, Into the Woods)