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I don’t know what to say, other than that I’m so very sad. People on the radio kept saying, “It wasn’t really a surprise.” Maybe not, but that doesn’t make me feel better. I love the photo that accompanies the below Times article.
Benazir Bhutto, 54, Lived in Eye of Pakistan Storm
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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
I don’t know why this upsets me so much, but it really does. May she rest in peace.
Sad and scary and she was just so beautiful.
I echo Susan’s thoughts in that I also don’t know why this has upset me so much, but it has.
Maybe no one else was surpised, but I was. My first sobering thought was, “I can’t believe they got her.” Scary indeed.
Im very sad they go to her. She was an inspiration.
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