PETERS – Don’t blame the calendar for spate of celebrity deaths

Posted on December 31, 2016 in Columns // 0 Comments

WHEN GEORGE MICHAEL, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds died this week, it all got to be a little much.

This agonizing, this exaggerated lamentation that has reached a fever pitch, with one target in the crosshairs – 2016.

The year, 2016, anthropomorphized as the serial killer taking all of our most beloved celebrities.

Social media users directed all manner of insults and profanity toward their calendars.

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