In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:38:16 +1300, Miche > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > sf > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:13:12 -0800, Don Martinich >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >I can't remember when I first posted here, but, I remember exchanging
> >> >email with Susan Hattie. What year could that have been?
> >>
> >> That would have been before she died and she's been dead a long time.
> >
> >She died in 1996. Here's her husband Andreas's tribute page:
> >
> >http://andreas.com/susan/
> >
> Boy, that brings back sad memories. I'd only been posting here (or
> anywhere) a couple of years and reading the blow-by-blow of her final
> hospitalization felt ghoulish on one level, but we were all really
> rooting for her and that felt positive on another level.

Yes, I got a real sense of community from it.

I was in an open-access computer lab at my university when I got the
news that Susan had died, and burst into tears on the spot. My
now-husband was with me, and took me up to the aviary to see the birds.
I don't think I'll ever forget that day.

Miche

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