(Karen Carpenter) Deprived us all of that beautiful voice”
I know. I cried when she died, and I cried when Andrew Breitbart died. And my cats. That’s it.
The really sad thing is that everyone was pretty sure was in a good recovery when she died. But the damage to her heart had been done during the years before. Besides the non-eating of anorexia, she had been chowing down on ExLax. Also, somehow she’d scored something else — I think for thyroid (she had no thyroid problems) — which kept her weight down. A real mess. The best voice ever.
Carpenter’s issue was ‘control’ she had none nor didn’t know HOW to speak up. There is ALWAYS an underlying ‘condition’ or event...and sometimes just walking away from works .
A nice FR report on her from a few years back. And more details than I'd ever known about her case from that piece's beautiful source in The Guardian. By far the best and most interesting thing I've ever read from that normally liberal Brit rag.