Few people felt the loss of Google Reader as keenly as Alexandra Samuel (and I say that as someone who has fantasized publicly about a code extraction team liberating Reader from the Googleplex before they can deliver the coup de grace.)

My wife and partner relies heavily on Reader as part of her workflow, so when Google announced that Reader is going the way of the dodo, the passenger pigeon and Wave, her anger and grief spilled freely – and eloquently – into her Twitter stream.

I’m not sure if Google’s leadership has any appetite at all for revisiting that decision – it’s not the sort of thing they’ve backed down from in the past. But I hope they’ll consider the fact that Reader can still inspire this kind of loyalty.

Meanwhile, these tweets inspired me to draw this. And while I drew it for her, it’s for everyone who feels this way.

(#GoogleReader OR (#Google AND #Reader)) AND (“shut down” OR closed OR cancelled) AND (sucks OR stinks OR stupid).

— AlexandraSamuel.com (@awsamuel) March 14, 2013

I’ve got that feeling when you wake up sad and remember, oh yeah, it’s cause I just got dumped. In this case, by #GoogleReader. — AlexandraSamuel.com (@awsamuel) March 14, 2013

I’m so mad about the end of #GoogleReader, I’m going to stop googling things and go back to AltaVista. #LookItUpKids — AlexandraSamuel.com (@awsamuel) March 14, 2013

One of our #socialmedia assistants just asked “Why are they closing #GoogleReader?” Reminds me of @lilsweetie asking “Why do people die?”

— AlexandraSamuel.com (@awsamuel) March 15, 2013