Now, 13 years later, Cynthia is having grim reminders of the mass suicide, as people around her begin to die one at a time.

Tonight, however, the Knicks provided a grim reminder of those times.

It also holds a grim reminder of more turbulent days.

A few cannon fired at the Americans as a grim reminder that they were still there.

It came as a grim reminder of what he had seen down in those caverns.

The ruined forest was a grim reminder to all of why they fought.

It was a grim reminder that I hadn't come here to play amorous games in the snow.

So now, even the lead on Sept. 10, 1993, is a grim reminder.

For them the surviving gang members stand as a grim reminder of the road not taken.

But the story does not read at all as a grim reminder of how people would rather hear sweet fiction than sour fact.