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“She’d always have these great stories. […] She had no family, so she’d just travel. She’d come back, I’d ask where she’d been, and she’d been hiking in Iceland, or kayaking in Thailand, or learning how to do pottery in Italy or something. We used to joke about it. I’d say, when are you going to get married, settle down? And she laughed and say maybe in the next life.”

“She felt that by any rational measure she was living an extraordinary life, but on the other hand she wasn’t sure what the goal had been. Later she stood alone on the terrace, filming the Mediterranean, and thought, ‘maybe this could be enough. Maybe not everyone needs to have a specific ambition. I could be the sort of person who just goes to beautiful places and owns beautiful things.’”

“take some pictures, take pictures every day, see if it makes you feel better” — on turning creativity while grieving

“she often found herself thinking about variations on reality, different permutations of events: an alternate reality […] none of these scenarios seemed less real than the life she’d landed in, so much so that she was struck sometimes by a truly unsettling sense that there were other versions of her life being lived without her. […] she could only play this game for so long.”