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grundy, we hardly knew ye posted: Fri 2012-03-30 04:56:52 tags: n/a
I don't remember when [grundoon] started circulating on E2 and in #everything. Hey, it was a decade ago. There was a hint of a possibility of romance by the time cz's 2002 nodermeet rolled around. She brought her imp/buddha/daughter - 3, 4 years old at the time? Turned out we didn't particularly click "that way" face-to-face. Then we were both in attendance later that year at the Portland nodermeet. I gave a dramatic reading of impressions from my first visit to a strip club ("[On Losing My Strip-Club Cherry]"); she read her essay, "[butterfly soup]". We sipped whiskey from the bottle together. She faded away from IRC, I faded away from E2. But in the same way I've been a fan of many noders long after the nodegel had set and cooled to me, I remained a [grundoon] fan from afar.

She died of very stubborn brain cancer earlier today, after years of surgery, chemo and radiation. Judging by the Facebook buzz, she touched a lot of lives. Amazing, courageous lady, my friend grundarlin'. God rest her soul.