One of my favorite computer games as a kid was a Sierra game called Ecoquest where you meet a talking dolphin and help clean up pollution in the dolphins' kingdom. Since I didn't have many friends I would fantasize about being the player character and going on adventures with the dolphin. One day years later I tried to find out what happened to the game's cast and I found the dolphin was voiced by Brittany Benov who was a child actress in Fresno, California. She had bipolar depression and ended up dying in her 20s when she overdosed on drugs in the apartment of a stranger she had just met. When I found this out it honestly sent me into a tailspin, even though I never met her in person. It feels like she was still part of my childhood and she did a good job voicing that character, so her voice has always been burned into my head. I care about the environment a lot and that game helped develop those interests, and I guess I always wished I could have met her so I could tell her that, so it was really hard finding out she was gone. I also feel from reading her story that she and I had a lot of the same issues as we both struggled with issues at home and personal relationships, so I feel like we could really have been friends if we'd met.
