Yale Student’s Essay on Life Resonates After Her Death

(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- Little did 22-year-old Marina Keegan know the impact an essay she wrote for a special graduation edition of the Yale Daily News would have on the university's class of 2012, and others.  Just days after students and faculty read her testimony to life, she died in a car crash in Massachusetts.

And now her essay, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” with the heart-wrenching line, “We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re 22 years old. We have so much time” has gone viral.

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I’d say that’s how I feel at Yale,” she wrote. “How I feel right now. Here. With all of you. In love, impressed, humbled, scared. And we don’t have to lose that. We’re in this together, 2012. Let’s make something happen to this world.”

Keegan, an English major with a writing concentration, died May 26 when she and her boyfriend, Michael Gocksch, were en route to Cape Cod. He lost control of the Lexus, hit a guardrail, spun across the road to hit the opposite guardrail, then rolled over twice. Gocksch was uninjured, but Keegan died at the scene.

In her essay to the Yale graduates that has now caught the hearts of many across the Internet, Keegan wrote that leaving the university and entering the real world “scares me."

“More than finding the right job or city or spouse – I’m scared of losing this web we’re in,” she wrote. “This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. This feeling I feel right now.”

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Police Search for Missing Disabled Man from Hartford

(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- Police are seeking the public's assistance in locating a missing man from Hartford.

Police said 61-year-old Thurlow Wheeler has not been seen since early Tuesday morning, with officers adding that Wheeler is an intellectually disabled man.

He is described as a White male, about six feet tall, weighs around 180 pounds, with white hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information about Wheeler's whereabouts is asked to contact Hartford Police at (860) 757-4000.

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Elderly Man Crashes Into New Haven Post Office

(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- An elderly man crashed through the front window of a New Haven post office on Monday, ABC News New London affiliate WTNH-TV reports.

The incident occurred about 6:30 a.m. when the unidentified man was headed to the Whalley Avenue post office to drop off mail. The front end of the car was nearly completely destroyed after it slammed through the windows, dragging two outside mailboxes into the lobby.

A witness called an ambulance. The man was shaken up but is said to be in okay condition.

No other information was immediately available.

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Seventy-Seven Drunk Driving Arrests over Memorial Day Weekend

(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- Connecticut State Police made 77 Poll: Obama Leads Romney in California arrests over the holiday weekend, according to a report in the Hartford Courant.  Last year, 70 drunk driving arrests were made over Memorial Day Weekend.

State Police handed out 816 seatbelt tickets and 1,797 speeding tickets over the weekend.  In 2011, 978 seatbelt tickets and 2,013 speeding tickets were issued, according to the report.

When it came to car accidents, there was only one fatality over the weekend, compared to four last year.

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Suspicious Fire: Waterbury House Goes Up in Flames

(WATERBURY, Conn.) -- An investigation is underway into the cause of an early-morning fire in Waterbury on Tuesday, with officials deeming the blaze as suspicious.

The two-alarm fire reportedly started shortly after midnight at a vacant house located on Vine Street. Firefighters worked to prevent the raging flames from spreading to nearby structures and spent over three hours battling the blaze, according to published reports.

Officials said the fire appears suspicious.

There were no reports of injury.

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