Angeline — I am still in shock. We were in many ways mirror twins in high school with Angeline by far being the more talented, ambitious, eloquent, and confident one between us. In mock trial, I was the defendent and she my attorney. She devised a scheme where we dressed the same and wore our hair in the same braid because she bet the other kids in suburbia wouldn’t be able to tell two Asian girls apart. Sure enough, the key witnesses misidentified us. It was a movie scene with the whole courtroom erupting. I could see the judge stifling a laugh.

She went on to law school and become a litigator. No surprise there – she was born to it. I wish i had a better picture of the Mock Trial team than this faded and aged one where our faces are gone. Here’s another one of Angeline singing karaoke at my surprise birthday party. So many tears in learning of her passing, but also I am trying to smile through them because she was an amazing and brilliant presence on this Earth. My condolences to Eugenia and Angeline’s friends and family. She will be so devastatingly missed.