gregg
At 12:11 AM 10/15/97 GMT, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>You do not know me as I have never posted to this newsgroup before. I did
>not know of its existence until today (surfin' the web instead of
>working!). Please forgive me for not knowing any of your jargon.
>
>I am posting this now, because I want you to know that my daughter Elanor
>attended her first gathering last July in Oregon and you may have met her:
>tall, slender, dressed like Janis Joplin, almost waist length brown hair,
>large diamond shaped tatoo in the middle of her back. She would have
>pronounced her name as "Eee-LAY-nor." She telephoned a friend while she
>was at the gathering and told her friend that she, Elanor, was "the
>happiest chick in the world." I gather she had found a group a free
>spirits much like her.
>
>If you did meet her or know her, then I am afraid I have some very sad
>news to report. Elanor was killed in a car wreck in Arizona while
>returning to Texas from the gathering. I guess she has now gone to
>another and grander Rainbow Gathering. May we all join her in some future
>and better world.
>
>"It is beautiful to have been alive while [she] was alive."
>
> -Pablo Neruda
>
>--
>Elliot Richmond
>PhD candidate in Science Education
>The University of Texas at Austin
>
>