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After tucking my child into bed, I opened my TIME to the article on the earthquake in Turkey and saw the photograph of Emine Kacar, trapped in the ruins of her building [WORLD, Aug. 30]. I wept for this woman, her children dead, a child's small body lying beneath her own. I had read the headlines and kept pace with the daily death-toll updates, but the scale of human suffering did not touch me until I connected with this victim. You say in your article that "it is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home...
...friend, but, Smith writes, "the days they spent alone were a mere 25. They floated along in an existence that was intense and unreal...[Their romance] was perhaps the clearest evidence that she had made little progress in dealing with her demons." Two summers ago, her fans wept, saying, Diana, we hardly knew ye. With this book, it is now safe to say, Diana, we know more than enough...
This sort of false intimacy isn't new, of course. People wept when Rudolph Valentino died in 1926 and when the Lindberghs lost their baby in 1932. It's natural and in most ways harmless to identify with the famous. But today's combination of busy lives, fragmented families and saturation media coverage of celebrities means this is the only intimacy many of us experience outside our immediate family. And that's unhealthy, because these celebrity relationships...
Losing a member of our work family can be as devastating as losing a blood relative, and that is why so many of us here at TIME wept when we learned last week that Brigid O'Hara-Forster had suddenly died of a brain aneurysm in London...
Then, as she wept, Ron told her his story. As Tyler was cooing and playing with his feet in the crib, Ron wrapped the baby's head in plastic wrap. He then sat down for dinner and brushed his teeth before returning to see his son's last breath. He removed the wrap and turned the baby onto his stomach, switched off the light and went to bed. He wanted Amy to be the one to discover the body. "Now we're even," he said...