this in particular really got to me:
Fans of the legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams, who died Monday, turned a bench where Williams and Matt Damon shared a scene in the classic Boston movie “Good Will Hunting” into a makeshift memorial Monday night, leaving flowers and writing quotes from the film on the ground.
Maybe because I loved the movie so much. Maybe because, by all accounts, Robin Williams was a kind and generous man who cared about other people, and maybe because I recently lost one of my own friends to depression.
Or maybe it was this tweet from Sarah Michelle Geller, who co-starred with Williams in "The Crazy Ones" and referred to him as "the father I wished I'd had":
Awfully big shoes to fill.