		sayings	"She shakes your hand and then pulls you into a hug." No airs, no self-pity, "never any of this wounded-walking victim. ... She was one of us gals." Indeed, women, it seemed, responded more strongly. "It was particularly hard on me because I still think of myself as young, and she looked so vivacious," says Ezell, 45, who works in sales. In fact, Reeve appeared strong at the Jan. 12 Madison Square Garden retirement ceremony for Mark Messier's New York Rangers jersey. She sang, poignantly,
		sayings	She sang, poignantly, Carole King's Now and Forever. "The idea that someone in our generation could die of natural causes — it just brings you around, you know, to reality — or mortality," Ezell says. Norman, 68, a writer, "felt a realness to (Reeve)." She and her husband "just sort of bared their souls." So Norman spent Tuesday searching her own soul, thinking about that famous line from the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world." And thoug
		sayings	Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world." And though no funeral plans have been announced, for Dana Reeve, "no one," says Norman, "could think of a better epitaph."