should I feel comforted or unsettled?

Dan Savage's mother apparently died on Monday. Never met her, saw her, heard what she sounds like, and I can't say exactly what kind of person she was. Everything I ever heard of her was from Dan, in his book, podcasts, or column. Although it's only a distant secondary account that I know of her, I have to say I'm a little genuinely sad. That probably says something about how people can draw strange connections to each-other.