verushka70

Oh, I'm so sorry to learn this! So sad, so young....

I try not to listen to the news or watch TV news at this time of year for fear I'll learn of the death of a celebrity whose work I loved, who gave me joy, who will never be back again. Shivers.

Recently, I learned of the death of Father Laurence L. Cassidy, SJ, an old old friend of mine. I googled him because I wanted to contact him again right before my husband died. Only to find out that Father Cassidy had died in 2006. Awful.

Last year I found out about the death of an old friend through a Beauty and the Beast the TV Series list I was on, with my email at AOL (I've since left AOL and if I'd left earlier, never would have known). Nan Dibble, who had shared her home with me in Cincinnati for a year and a half, and coached me so well with my writing, died early in 2006 at the age of 63, after only one year of retirement.... Horrible.

With these two deaths, I feel as though life shut a door in my face, almost as though death is mocking me. I've had so few friends over the years and Laurence and Nan were two of them, along with my husband Hannes. Dreadful feeling of isolation.

I know how sad you must be.

Be well, Verushka. I pray 2008 will be a better year in every way than the last.

Love, max