Madeleine L'Engle passes away, 88 years old

[helen99]

I first met you (or more accurately, your books) around 1963 when I was meg's age. You were one year younger than my mom. You should look her up now - you had a lot in common and she loved you too, as I did.

My favorite recent quote from you (after you saw the movie they made of your book and an interviewer asked if it met your expectations) was, "Oh yes! I expected it to be bad, and it was!"

You were quite smashing when you were young, you know. And you stayed beautiful all your life.

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[helen99.livejournal.com]

She's one of the few people I know of who died of "natural causes". (whatever that means). Not cancer or heart disease or some kind of freak accident. Just "natural causes".

I hope that somehow I can die of relatively painless "natural causes" before anyone has to put me in a nursing home. Either that or tesser the heck outa here...