Sunday Times 10/26/14: Celebrating Marina’s short life with the opposite of despair. Shortly before she died in May 2012, Marina had written the cover article for a graduation edition of the Yale Daily News. Titled The Opposite of Loneliness, the essay was an impassioned plea to her contemporaries to seize the opportunities that lay ahead. “What we have to remember is that we can still do anything… We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re 22 years old. We have so much time,” she wrote. In the days after her death the article went viral. Strangers from across America and Europe contacted the Keegans to tell them how they had been inspired by Marina’s essay. “There was a gentleman who had just returned from Iraq who said, ‘I read your daughter’s story and I’m going to go to medical school,’” says Tracy.