[summer]

Here is how the NYT reported her death, which I find rather odd, in light of this Forbes article which makes it clear she had been suffering from cancer for awhile:

Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running Pulitzer Prize winner "The Heidi Chronicles," died today after a bout with lymphoma, Lincoln Center Theater announced. She was 55....

They make it sound like she got sick one weekend, and died right away. Very bizarre.

[Galveston Grl]

My brother died of cancer at age 54. He was physically fit and did not smoke. What made him get cancer? Guess what, Summer, you might get cancer, too. The skinny lady down the street might get cancer. Fat people, skinny people - they can all die "prematurely."

I once saw a death cert. for a man who died of diabetes at age 76. His kidneys finally failed and he could not get a transplant. He had the disease since childhood. The cause of death was marked as "smoking." So now you think that "fat" should be the cause of death when someone dies of cancer? How are you going to blame yourself when you get sick, Summer?