Yes... carlo... I knew she loved many of us in Freeperdom. She dubbed me the Waspman and kept needlin me to "Sting 'Em," and stuff like that. What a person!!! She always liked my 3 "!!!" (stingers)
She, LadyX and Billie were my first three contacts on FR. I was kinda roudy and she and LadyX used to corner me in the FR Post Office and explain things to me on proper FR manners and to show proper respect for Billie as the "Queen Mum" of FR. I could see quickly they were right as Billie is so loved for her talent and dignity.
I had recently lost my bid for re-election and was so low and bored and depressed that her guidance led me to learn to love the people of FR, along with LadyX. Your recipie threads were a gas and as you know, I love to "cut-up" and push the envelope with silliness, at times. She seemed to enjoy it all and was so forgiving, except when I would call her "Angeleak!"
There is so much I don't know about her and I wish I knew if she suffered alone in loneliness. It just breaks my heart to even try to think about it. The last I knew, she had gotten hurt and was recuperating. Didn't she have anyone to minister to her in her last days? If not, she surely deserved better!
Her humor lit up an extremely dark and lonely period in the Waspman's life and I grieve for the woman if she was lonely as loneliness can surely destroy the best of people. I'm assuming she was as she was not discovered rapidly. To me this is sadder than the death of Chief Negotiator, our mutual friend who may have been murdered as far as I know.
I grieve for the rest of you too, as I know this horrible news has darkened your day as it has mine. I shan't forget the Angelic One, but I know there is another Cherub around the throne of God speaking her romantic language right into His ear. This is my prayer for her as I loved what I knew of her... very dearly!!!
Yes, Wasperman, we had the best of times with our sweet and spirited friend and our love of 'wurdz' and 'wurd' play.
She and I were friends on the side as well as the threads, where we eternally redecorated the Freep Mail Room, drab as it was.
We gave it special touches, like the UNWANTED POSTERS I created with Bill and Hill and Ann (Gatling Gun) Lewis and Begala and their cohorts.
Used 'em as dart boards when frustrated or bored..:))
When there was a dispute on how chili should be made, one woman said she'd made a mess of it and biscuits (not cornbread or crackers, she said), the next day I knew what I had to do.
Hailed Angelique and tossed some of the hardened ones from my South Carolina to Arizona and pelted her.
All out war ensued, with an admonition to those in Texas not to stand up, else they be in the line of fire.
Our aim did not match our zeal!
My last mail from her was about that war, and soon after she was sorting and packing to move back to her home in California, I assume to be with her family.
Carlo, she will always be with us in our hearts, and our lives the richer for the time we had.
Angelique - I mourn you did not tell me you were so ill, and that I could not be there to hold your hand.
It is heaven's gain to have you there.
Until we meet again,
One of her dearest friends, and mine. I will surely miss your playfulness with her. I know I am going to cry at the sight of your name. My sincere thanks to you.