so this is what happens when you don't keep in touch with your friends...

Amelia,
I'm so so sorry.  I heard about Paige; I'm sure you guys have found out by now.  She was just lovely, and it must be awful for Andrew and John, both being gone (I thought John was going next semester, but the paper said he was in Norway now).  And for you, with everything else you've been dealing with.  I'm thinking of you, and of them.
I love you lots,
Anne

i can't believe i didn't know. but i didn't. i didn't go back to grand forks this summer, and i didn't know how sick she was this fall, and i wish so much that i had. page was the person who got me through my disbelief phase, and the person i wish could have celebrated my marriage. i will never forget how honored i was to read at her ordination, or how much i loved it when she looked down at me from the pulpit and winked.