Wow, she was born in 1911? Can you imagine living through two world wars, experiencing all that devastation and technological progress, and coming out sane.

Have you looked her up since?

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I often do when she comes to mind, but it's unlikely the search results will ever go beyond the couple hits related to her involvement in haiku-landia.

But she was a dear soul. Grew up and spent most of her life in Brooklyn, NY, USA, of which her glorious accent along was sufficient proof.

Understand that I grew up and spent the vast majority of my early days in the so-called "midwest" of the United States, so NYC was essentially a mythical beast worthy of reverence and awe. So when I moved that direction (about 90 miles north of NYC), it was quite a big deal, especially for having endured a few years of being a "fundamentalist Christian" during part of my college years.

The sense of having moved from nowhere to (in my mind) The Greatest Somewhere of All was amplified all the more by suddenly living with of lifelong resident of Where John Lennon Wanted To Be....