Daria M. V. K.
May. 2nd, 2003 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peppermintesseMy strongest memories of her involve drama and music.
I can't remember where they were going that morning, but the destination wasn't crucial in any way, only that it wasn't local. She forgot to 'spring forward' the clock that morning and when they arrived to pick her up, she was still in hot rollers, thinking she had plenty of time in the world. (They broke the land-speed record, I think, in order to get there on time.) She starred as Leisl in our high school's "The Sound of Music", and oh, the snickering during her main song ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen"), because anyone who knew her knew she was not at all the innocent that Liesl was. Nor was she a floozy, as she was in "Funny Girl" where she and I played a pair in our vintage '20s dresses, sidling up to Dave S.
She was diagnosed with cancer while early in a pregnancy. I learned late yesterday that she died on Wednesday... the first and only Daria that I ever knew. I did not know her terribly well, but well enough to know she was a good person.
Today she would have been 33. I'm not even 33 yet.
As I read the obituary my dad scanned in from the local paper, it seems that she had not changed at all from the kind, well-liked girl I'd known in school. I can only imagine the hole her death has left in their lives: her family, her close friends, and her music students.
Rest in peace.
I can't remember where they were going that morning, but the destination wasn't crucial in any way, only that it wasn't local. She forgot to 'spring forward' the clock that morning and when they arrived to pick her up, she was still in hot rollers, thinking she had plenty of time in the world. (They broke the land-speed record, I think, in order to get there on time.) She starred as Leisl in our high school's "The Sound of Music", and oh, the snickering during her main song ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen"), because anyone who knew her knew she was not at all the innocent that Liesl was. Nor was she a floozy, as she was in "Funny Girl" where she and I played a pair in our vintage '20s dresses, sidling up to Dave S.
She was diagnosed with cancer while early in a pregnancy. I learned late yesterday that she died on Wednesday... the first and only Daria that I ever knew. I did not know her terribly well, but well enough to know she was a good person.
Today she would have been 33. I'm not even 33 yet.
As I read the obituary my dad scanned in from the local paper, it seems that she had not changed at all from the kind, well-liked girl I'd known in school. I can only imagine the hole her death has left in their lives: her family, her close friends, and her music students.
Rest in peace.
