A beautiful young dancer overdosed Monday.
I had been acquainted with Katie through dance for years, and got to know her better when we danced together in the Reedpipes dance of the Nutcracker Ballet a few years ago. (You get to know someone’s personality pretty well when it’s just three dancers and the director in one dance studio for hours on end.) She was so full of life and passion that I cannot conceive of her brightness no longer being with us. Smart, willowy beautiful, genuinely concerned about other people; she lit up any room. And any stage she was on. She was a knitter — I helped her cast on a scarf one Nutcracker.
She was only 20. She was just trying to make the pain go away.
Katie, we miss you.
7 responses so far ↓
Deb // November 21, 2007 at 1:32 pm |
Oh, I’m soo sorry!
Was she in physical or emotional pain?
Vicki // November 21, 2007 at 10:00 pm |
Oh, I’m so sorry. This is the young woman I read about, isn’t it? I’ve been thinking about her and those who’d be touched by this ever since I first read it.
SB&C // November 22, 2007 at 3:23 pm |
Oh my Lord…. My heart weeps for those who feel there is just no option but to close the doors on their friends.. and finally on themselves.
Amanda
kmkat // November 22, 2007 at 11:31 pm |
So sad. Especially when there is [probably] help if she had only known where and how to look for it. I’m so sorry for her family and all who miss her.
bruisinraincloud // November 24, 2007 at 7:47 pm |
so sorry for your loss, and for our loss as well.
Nicole // November 25, 2007 at 8:43 pm |
I’m so sorry for your loss.
J is for Jeté « Hither and Yarn // May 24, 2008 at 11:02 pm |
[...] The next year, we reprised our roles, and the Preteen was a mouse (seven years old). But there was a lack of teen dancers for all the variations; there are only so many quick changes one can do, instantaneous changes are not possible, and it was just a number (or lack of numbers) thing that year. So I volunteered, if there was an easier part I could dance to help out. There was, and it would be helpful, so that year I danced Reed Pipes as well (with my sorely-missed young friend Katie). [...]