She used past tense easily before this and seemed to collect herself and revert back to past tense afterwards. Just struck me as odd with him gone for 17 months now - I would think she would be used to talking about him in the past tense by now.

There is a book coming out (so many books coming out!) and she was on to talk about it.

My dream is that Rush is still alive. He and JFK Jr and Princess Di. Along with Kappy, Michael Jackson, and others. Others have faked their deaths!