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[rivka]

Oh God!

Anna Pope is dead.

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[trinker.livejournal.com]

I just finished an entry in my own LJ that I marked private. I think I'll be adding to it as days go on, editing and re-editing, and maybe putting it in my memories section.

It's very strange to be seeing it said so baldly. And yet, it's sort of...I hesitate to use the word "therapeutic", but I guess it is. I have a hard time subvocalizing that. I'm not sure that I can say it aloud, those four words. I think in my mind, it's "Anna's gone". "Dead" feels really clinical. And yet more accurate. Anna's not gone from my memory, or even, I guess, from my life.

I miss her already.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I should add:

George is going to post to alt.callahans about it in the next few days. I think we should leave it to him to announce it there, as he wants, for the record. But I don't think it's supposed to be a secret from individual people who would want to know.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I only know peaberry from here.

I love the cat-on-head picture.

As with Liam, this is someone I won't be able to take off my friends list.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

*blink*

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I just read the letter from George, wrote a few lines back to him, and thought I'd check here to see if anybody was talking about it.

Jesus... Our Renaissance Maenad has departed this life. We were blessed to know her. I hope that she is pain free, and at peace.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Two of us are here this weekend who knew and loved Anna, and we've been alternating between weeping and hugging all evening. Tonight we're going to go see a musical in her memory.

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

Oh.

I didn't get to meet her. I really, *really* wanted to.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Me too :( Still stunned by the whole thing.

Anna was...

[saoba.livejournal.com]

... smart, funny, tough, gentle, vital, brave, loving, articulate and a source of joy.

Damn it.

Off to light a candle.

Barbara

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I only got to meet her once...on my way out from California in '99...it was almost precisely three years ago now. My train went through Chicago and Trinker had conspired with Anna & George to meet me at the train, so I wouldn't feel so alone.

The train was late, as they often are...so we had five minutes together, instead of three hours...I got hugs, a card and the reccomendation of a marvelous Chinese resturant on the top floor of the station.

I don't understand how my friend can be dead. I am, largely, speechless.

She was a marvelous person...I'm going to miss her so much.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I never got to meet Anna in person myself, but I seemed to be setting her up with my dear friends. I guess I was arranging to meet her by proxy. ;)

I never did get to hear her sing, dammit.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe she's gone. Her spirit was amazing, and both my wife and I were honoured to know them and that they could be at our wedding.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Anna... had more vitality than just about anyone else I can think of. She was smart, she was eloquent, she was down-to-earth and also fabulously silly. And jesus, she was brave.

I thought we had more time.