'Until we meet again': A fond farewell to my friend Cokie Roberts

So many folks will offer their remembrances and tributes to Cokie Roberts after her passing because she was such an icon and beloved by people across this country.

Most people know that Cokie and I were colleagues at ABC News serving on the"This Week" Roundtable on many Sundays,"Good Morning America" to talk elections and at special events for the network. But I have known Cokie for more than 30 years -- starting when I was working on political campaigns and she was covering them.

It might be because we both had suffered loss in our lives and one bonds with people who have an open heart. It is hard to know, but sometimes the universe brings people into your life who connect with you whether that be for a day, a season or a lifetime. I am so grateful I was able to share a season of life with Cokie and to have had so many conversations and laughs with her.

She was kind under every circumstance, no matter if it was at a campaign office, a coffee shop, the green room or in the makeup chair. Each time I would come away from the connection having learned something or laughed out loud. Politics was in her DNA and her bloodstream, and she understood well that the political is personal, and the personal is political in the best sense of the words.

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