Summary
ALTHOUGH BY THE TIME we have reached a certain age, we are supposed to be used to the cruel reality of losing people prematurely, Wendy Wasserstein's death of lymphoma hits her generation hard.
"How can this be?" my friend fired off by e-mail from a continent away. Another told me, "I was so shocked when I heard it, I wanted to call you just to talk about her." I read the news while sitting in a dentist's office - startling myself and the others in the crowded waiting room by involuntarily exclaiming out loud. I studied the headline again, hoping I hadn't read correctly. Under the bold type "Obituary": "Wendy Wasserstein, 55, prize-winning playwright."See the full content of this document
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Wendy, You Wrote Our Lives
We had mourned the death of Bella Abzug, mother of the women's movement, and Susan Sontag, soothsayer of the 20th century.
But they were part of an older generation. Wendy Wasserstein was our o...See the full content of this document
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