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[mayhap]

Barbara Mertz/Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels/one of my single favorite people in the world has died.

I can't even say how sad this makes me. Right this minute I'm house-sitting for my junior high best friend's mom, who gave me copies of The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog and Murder Must Advertise for my twelfth birthday and basically set the agenda for who I was going to read and what I was going to be going forward.

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[lysimache.livejournal.com]

I thought of you when I heard this last night. I was sad, of course, but it seems she passed away as she wanted, peacefully at home in her sleep, so at least there's that. But still: the world is immeasurably poorer without her. :(

[mayhap]

Very true. And she had about one of the most awesome lives I can imagine, too!

[lysimache.livejournal.com]

OMG YOUR ICON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sniffles* Vicky!