Julian Lennon has gotten back in touch with his childhood friend Lucy Vodden, whom he once depicted in a drawing as "Lucy in the sky with diamonds". Alas, Lucy, now 46, is suffering from lupus.
Alas, indeed, but people do get sick, become crippled and die, often at a heartbreakingly early age.
Lennon has his associations with the song. I have my own Lucy.
I'm not sure why I associated my stepdaughter Rebecca with Lucy, but by now the connection is too strong to ever be broken: Becca is my Lucy. I miss her so much since she died of cancer.
Kathe misses her more, of course. And she has her own associations for Becca, her own ways of remembering her.
And in the end, of course, she is neither my Becca nor Kathe's. Her life and her death were her own business, and we should not fetishize her memory.
But the people who loved her, and love her, and always will, can still remember her, each in our own way.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "We can hardly avoid it."\\
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