conv: I got a call in the middle of the night during college that one of my best friends had been in a fatal car crash.  One night during college I got a phone call in the middle of the night that one of my best friends had been killed in a car wreck. That sounds terrible! you must have been devastated! Absolutely. It was really the first time I had lost someone close to me_comma_ family or friend. It was a terrible way to comes to term with dead_comma_ I'm so sorry you have to go through that.  I hope time have healed you.