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“Anthony Shadid, a gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in Syria. Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.”

Whoa.

Of course I choked up because, what an incredible reporter Anthony Shadid had been, and how sad and strange that he died on an incredibly dangerous assignment not by gunfire or violence but by a simple allergy to horses, and finally how amazing are human beings that they take care of each other in that way, even after death.

So then I looked up Tyler Hicks and:

WHOA.