Dear Salt Lake Tribune daily print edition,
Your eventual absence from my life will be a void.
Your physical pages have been integral to my upbringing in Salt Lake City — informing and educating me through many of my childhood, adolescent and adult years.
You’ve told me some of my life’s biggest news stories.
I know the news I’ve come to depend on you for will continue online. But you’ve always been so much more than the sum of your information.
You’ve been a ritual, a dependable presence on the morning stoop, taken in and consumed alongside coffee, set down to be picked up later when there’s a spare moment for further reflection on a story, or a second for a puzzle. And on rare and important occasions, you’ve been tucked away in a drawer to be pulled out years later as a record of monumental history or memento of personal occasion.
You’ve been a truly important and cherished part of my life, and I’ll miss you dearly when you are gone.
Lindsey Nikola, Salt Lake City
