I realised something eerie over the past few days.
It first began on Friday morning. I was on YouTube and had been recommended a video of an early 1990s episode of Family Feud.
I've been watching earlier editions of the game show which starred Richard Dawson. I hadn't seen any with Ray Combs at the helm but was aware he was the show's MC during the late-80s right through to 1994 mainly because he popped up a few times on WWF TV when I was a child. I was also aware Combs had passed away not long after he was replaced on Family Feud by his predecessor.
I had always assumed Conbs had died in a car accident. That's because I remember reading he had been in a car crash back when I was a child.
On Friday, I was stunned to read Combs had died by own hand after being sectioned following a mental breakdown hours earlier. He was found hanged in the closet of his hospital room.
The eeriness of the timing struck me when I realised the twenty-eighth anniversary of Combs' passing was two days from when I found out about it.
That's today.
But, it gets even more surreal.
As noted above, the producers of Family Feud brought Richard Dawson back to replace Combs in '94.
Dawson has also since passed away. He lost a battle with cancer in 2012. Why do I consider it eerie? Well - his death also took place on a June 2nd.
It's surreal to acknowledge both men as being linked through not only Family Feud, but also as sharers of June 2nd as the days they left us.
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