I subscribe to TMZ on my facebook page, and they break news pretty quickly. When I saw the report that "someone" was found dead, I knew it my heart it was P. Then I kept obsessively refresing their page, waiting for more news, and they report "a source" confirmed it was him. I was at my desk at work, and I just yelled out, "Oh my God, Prince is dead!" I started texting everyone I could think of, not really doing any work for the rest of the day...

I was at work, and one of my best friends texted me.

The text said "Dude, Prince?" My gut sank, and then I hopped on the Internet and saw all of the breaking news.

RodeoSchro said:

Right here on the Org, followed it in real time when it was first posted there were emergency vehicles at Paisley Park.

The same for me. It was unreal. I remember calling my husband at work and telling him Prince might be dead. I started to cry and within minutes TMZ confirmed his death.

My Soror text me during lunch hour that day asking me 'how I'm holding up.' Then the rest of the day was a mirage of phone calls and text messages from people wanting to check up on me. Was in total shock for two days....

I was goofing off on Facebook when I saw a post from TMZ on my timeline that someone was found unconcious in Paisley Park and then that someone was dead. I assumed it was an employee or something. But then I checked Dr. Funkenberry's Twitter and he said it didn't sound good. Soon as I saw that I went back to Facebook and the news popped up on TMZ on my timeline that indeed Prince had died.

I was in a nosy resturant and my phone starting blowing up. I couldn't hear anything but "someone had died". As soon as I got back to my office I had several messages......

nursev said:

I just came out of my therapy session and my roomate told me. I burst into tears!

wactching the local news here in Minneapolis, when the ominous report flashed on the screen "DEATH AT PAISLEY PARK"....said a bunch of "UH-OH"s, trying to convince myself it wasnt P, it was some other staff member.... but then about 3 minutes later on the screen...PRINCE IS DEAD...

smh...

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Yuck
I Don't want 2 revisit this,

But I need 2.

At work, mid morning, I see something online about an ambulance at Paisley Park.
a coworker comes to me 'hey did you hear about Prince?' I'm a Prince fan, he isn't, so I assure him Prince is ok etc and my whole mind heart body because affected, and I could not focus. It's was a beautiful day-naturally.

I wanted to pull a Sheila E or L&W and jump on a plane 2 Minni.

I was at work. I was talking to a coworker when my phone starts blowing up. I ignored it because my friends and I have group texts so I figured they were just starting up a convo. I continued working until Facebook messages started to pop up along with a ton of texts. I finally gave in annoyed, not understanding why they wanted my attention so bad. The first thing I saw was a FB message from a friend that said "Prince? Please tell me this isn't true. I know you'll know if this is true or a hoax". My heart completely sunk. At first I thought, just a rumor this happens all the time. It wasn't until I saw a confirmed article and my world fell apart. I panicked. I had to excuse myself and I sat in the ladies room and sobbed. It was the worst day of my life. Especially finding out that morning, I had to go that whole day at work in a daze. My friends told me to just leave sick, but I had just been promoted so I couldn't pull that so early. A couple of my coworkers were aware that I loved him, but I don't think they knew just how far it went for me. They checked to see if I was ok and gave their "aww"s but it was just a normal day to them. I couldn't wait to get home so that I could let it all out. I was a wreck. I have a really great friend who came over because she refused that I be left alone, that really helped. I'll never forget that day.

I have taught high school for 21 years and I am known by the whole school as a huge Prince fan because I write the lyrics to Prince songs on my board as a bell ringer/Thought 4 2day type of thing.

April 21, 2016 started for me at 3:33 am when my doorbell rang. When I got to the door no one was there. This is an omen in our family of death. I was extremely worried and did not go back to bed. When no phone call came I called my parents around 7 am to check up on them and everything was fine so I headed to school.

That morning was one of the few mornings that I did not listen to Prince on my way to school. My son looked funny when we arrived and asked what's wrong? I responded by saying nothing and he said you didn't play Prince today. I was so worried about the doorbell that I didn't even think about it.

The day was normal and passed quickly until 12 noon and I went to lunch and one of my students was outside my door and he said I wanted to check on you to see if you are cool. I was like "What?" and he said "You don't know?" I said know what ? He said Prince is dead.

I grabbed my smartphone and it was dead. I plugged it into the charger and I had over 30 missed calls. My wife had called multiple times. My sister called multiple times. My mother called multiple times. I looked on Facebook and I had 70 messages and over 300 notifications. When the bell rang for the next class to start I had over 400 students at my door checking on me to see if I was OK.

To which I responded I'm fine because I was expecting it. "It" being a death because the doorbell warned me.

That was the first time that someone who was not related to us died and that happened

RJOrion said:

wactching the local news here in Minneapolis, when the ominous report flashed on the screen "DEATH AT PAISLEY PARK"....said a bunch of "UH-OH"s, trying to convince myself it wasnt P, it was some other staff member.... but then about 3 minutes later on the screen...PRINCE IS DEAD...

smh...

it just hasn't felt the same since then eh?

I wanna reply but these stories are making me cry Im sorry fam

nursev said:

I wanna reply but these stories are making me cry Im sorry fam

gonna miss prince forever and a day aren't we?

XxAxX said:

nursev said:

I wanna reply but these stories are making me cry Im sorry fam

gonna miss prince forever and a day aren't we?

yes ma'am 2 months later

klick2me said:

Sitting in a meeting (we make Häagen-Dazs ice cream) when someone opened the door and a co-worker said in a light voice, "Prince is dead". I had just shared with her and a few other's the day before that I thought Prince would die soon. I had no idea it would be so soon. I have suffered several losses in the last couple of years. Now Prince... he gone... he gone...

Aww Im sorry Klick

it still kinda feels like a glitch in the matrix.

XxAxX said:

it still kinda feels like a glitch in the matrix.

It really does...like this wasnt supposed to happen...but it did. Feels weird

My sons friend told me last night he was working on a Prince tribute song kinda hurt my feelings but I had to pretend like it didnt

nursev said:

I'm a video editor at TMZ. So....yeah. People kept asking me for facts about his life. I struggled to keep it together all day, then after work got to my car, put on "Sometimes It Snows In April", and just broke down.

renfield said:

I'm a video editor at TMZ. So....yeah. People kept asking me for facts about his life. I struggled to keep it together all day, then after work got to my car, put on "Sometimes It Snows In April", and just broke down.

jumanji2016 said:

nursev said:

yes ma'am 2 months later

Someone posted this on Instagram for his birthday and it immediately felt like April 22 again when the news started sinking in. I wanted to sob, but I was in public when I saw it. I mean Prince can't be just a memory now? https://instagram.com/p/BGXMXMQk1x4/

OMG Why did I click on it? too sad

nursev said:

XxAxX said:

it still kinda feels like a glitch in the matrix.

It really does...like this wasnt supposed to happen...but it did. Feels weird

I agree. I think that's why the grieving process has been so hard for me. Went walking early in the morning a couple days ago. An elderly man, about Prince's height and complexion was walking up beside me. Tears started welling in my eyes. I was like, "Prince should have lived to enjoy an old age."

jumanji2016 said:

Someone posted this on Instagram for his birthday and it immediately felt like April 22 again when the news started sinking in. I wanted to sob, but I was in public when I saw it. I mean Prince can't be just a memory now? https://instagram.com/p/BGXMXMQk1x4/

Okay, damn....now I'll be watching that and listening to the song for the next year or so...smh

roxy831 said:

nursev said:

It really does...like this wasnt supposed to happen...but it did. Feels weird

I agree. I think that's why the grieving process has been so hard for me. Went walking early in the morning a couple days ago. An elderly man, about Prince's height and complexion was walking up beside me. Tears started welling in my eyes. I was like, "Prince should have lived to enjoy an old age."

i keep waking up and then remembering that the world no longer includes prince, living and breathing among us. it's like the day is just ever so slightly less shiny after that. i check this website and i'm sad because the concert forum isn't lit up like in old days.

we aren't bickering about his new songs and offering prince a ton of free (and likely annoying) advice about his next direction.... we're sitting here, reminiscing. talking about old times. peering at pictures of the man in his prime, at tributes. it just makes me sad and i wonder what he would have made of the process we're all going through.

maybe he'd write us a song called "Gett Over Me" it'd be a nice country western hit.

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