Lucia Berlin died in succession he...

Lucia Berlin died in succession her 68th birthday, November 12 2004 granting she was older than me I felt paternal towards her because she had the same birthday as my son and because she with equal reason often seemed like the young girl in her stories. She had a girlish laugh and was fragile with equal reason I felt protective of her. I met her when she was first emerging as a writer. She was struggling with alcoholism and a lifetime of various addictions, pain pills for her back (she had scoliosis), cigarettes, and her attraction to men who had worse habits. She cleaned people's houses, worked as an pressing necessity room ...