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...very quick and even faster than last year. We are planning to go to Jackson Hole and Sun Valley over spring break to see if we can do some helicopter skiing and maybe even win some money at some freestyle contest. Wanted to go to Telluride but Mary Lyn can't get away from school so I've decided to try these different areas...
That was the last letter Bob sent to Jim. Jim flew to Denver March 24, 1976, for spring break, planning to meet Bob in a few days and go climbing and backpacking in the Grand Canyon. But the next evening, Mary Lyn called Jim and told him Bob had had an accident on the 24th while flying his hang glider off Point Fermin, California...
...MARY LYN is a physically powerful woman; she is strong emotionally, too. "I don't think she cried a teardrop until the day he died," Jim says. It devolved upon her to report Bob's deteriorating condition to Jim after he returned to Harvard from spring break...
...talked to Mary Lyn about twice a week on the phone. I'd just call her up, and there would never be any change, he would have just lost more weight, and his features were more deformed. He'd gone into the position with his elbows bent and his toes and hands pointed in, typical of comatose people with serious brain problems." Bob had had a natural-death will drawn up in California the year before, requesting that his life not be preserved by artificial means if he were severely incapacitated. His parents refused to honor the will. Near...
...remembers Bob that way. He arrived in Denver after finals just before midnight on June 8, planning to visit Bob the next morning with Mary Lyn. She called about 7 a.m. that morning and told him Bob had died of pneumonia about 3 a.m. There would be no funeral, Bob's father announced. The body would be cremated immediately...