Tuesday May 29 "Hey, do you know a librarian named Daniel Christensen?" "Yeah, why?" "Because he's dead." I set down the syrup with a thump and looked across the table at my brother. Obituaries with breakfast: one of the joys of rooming with a homicide detective. "It can't be the one I know. Dan's not even 40 yet." Kevin folded the paper into quarters and handed it across the table to me. "Thirty-seven. Take a look." I looked. CHRISTENSEN, Daniel W., 37, of Glendale, passed away suddenly on May 25, 2012. He was a graduate of CSU-Northridge and UCLA, and was a librarian at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is survived by his parents, William and Brenda Christensen, his sister, Eliza Melendez, and his nieces, Sarah and Lindsey. Arrangements are pending. Oh my God. I laid the paper down, stunned. “I knew him from library school. We had classes together during my first semester.” “Were you all friends?” “Yeah…but I haven’t seen him in years. This is unbelievable. I wonder if he’d been sick?”
