Sinister: Liz

[MWaggner at xxx.com]

If Starry Sarah can come out of the woodwork after all this time, then
I suppose I will as well.  I'm very happy you're safe Sarah... and
pleased you still seem to be *you.*

I may be the oldest of the old Sinisterines, chronologically... and
consequently I've left all this p!o!p! stuff to those more p!o!p! than
I.  But once a Sinisterine...

While I didn't know Liz outside the confines of the Sinister world,
I think most of us would agree that this small world made many of us
friends of a new and different kind -- we here often knew more about
each other than we knew of people in our "real" worlds and sometimes
shared things with each other here more easily than we do in that
"real" world -- and so I count her as one of those friends by virtue
of having read her posts and learned about her through them over
the years.  That, and the fact that people I know, respect and love
thought the world of her makes me feel the loss of Liz as though I
too have lost something.

Perhaps it is just that the world can ill afford to lose one of its
better beings and when it happens, we all feel the loss of their
goodness in the world somehow.  Maybe Sinister made all of us more
aware of that kind of world-connectedness.

As the mother of children not much younger than Liz, this resonates
particularly deeply in me and my heart breaks for her parents
especially.  We can never quite explain the amazing love we have for
our children, and how that love always carries with it both great
hopes for their lives and horrible fears for their safety.  It is what
makes parents so annoying sometimes.   I know I can't begin to know
the Daplyns' pain in reality, but I can imagine all too well the shape
and depth of it from my own nightmares and it makes me cry... for them,
for Liz, and for all the troubled world in which these things happen.

I hope that they, and everyone who loved and was touched by her,
will eventually find the peace that Liz would want them to find in
having known, loved and shared her life.  Hopefully their memories
of Liz will someday be beams of sunlight in which those who loved
her will be able to warm themselves in the dark of sadness.

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