I experienced the following coincidences in 2017:
1. The mayor of Hickory, North Carolina, committed suicide on May 11, 2017.
Hickory is my hometown.
2. Otto F. Warmbier, an UVA McIntire School of Commerce student and former
North Korea prisoner, died on June 19, 2017. I am a graduate of the UVA
McIntire School of Commerce.
3. Heather D. Heyer, a bankruptcy paralegal, was killed on August 12, 2017,
during the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia.