Gwen Ifill's Passing

I have just learned of the death yesterday of Gwen Ifill of the PBS Newshour, and I feel as if I have lost a close personal friend. Amazing how someone who comes into one's living room pretty much five days a week over a period of many years can seem so close.  She was an amazing journalist and I always thought she told only what she knew was fact and if she spoke an opinion on the air she said so. I have never felt such a personal loss of a public figure before. She was a magnificent human being.