Olivia Newton John has passed away

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Anonymous wrote:No idea who this is, but that's typical life expectancy for boomers, my parents died at that age

You gotta be trolling

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No idea who this is, but that's typical life expectancy for boomers, my parents died at that age

You gotta be trolling

I’m assuming very young.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No idea who this is, but that's typical life expectancy for boomers, my parents died at that age

You gotta be trolling

I’m assuming very young.

How young if their parents died at 73? How could you not know who Olivia Newton John was?

[Anonymous]

NP. I teared up over this. I'm not into celebrities at all, but I liked her, and she was such a big presence when I was in high school.

I do think it's hard to go from that age where your parents' generation of stars die (like Frank Sinatra, where you were sad but they were old when you were a kid) to this age I'm in where my generation of stars die.

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Anonymous wrote:So sad. I loved her in Grease! My favorite. John Travolta's tribute was very sweet. If that's her daughter in some of the pictures... ooof

Her daughter has had a lot of problems. Severe anorexia, drug and alcohol addictions, and like 500k in extreme plastic surgery however you want to classify that.

And yet, as a testament to her, she obviously loved her daughter deeply and supported and accepted her, with all of her daughter's psychological struggles and problems. It looked like she loved her unconditionally and kept her close, particularly once she struggled severely in her adolescence. I'm sure she suffered deeply in watching her daughter suffer. And yet they were sweet together. A deepl loss for her daughter Chloe.

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For a woman who was fit and into wellness and health from her young adulthood, with access to top quality healthcare, even before her diagnosis, 73 is relatively young to die. But cancer obviously is a gamechanger. That she lived 30 years post diagnosis, helped many and came to call it a gift that ultimately enriched her life, says to many of us that she was a tremendous success story. A beautiful person.

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The Post obituary said Olivia's grandfather had won the Nobel Prize for Physics--fascinating!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No idea who this is, but that's typical life expectancy for boomers, my parents died at that age

Go play. The grownups are talking.

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Hopelessly Devoted to You
You are the One that I Want
Physical

These songs popped into my head when I read this.

[Anonymous]

Her death is sad. It was a long time ago she first had cancer and so it was not that unexpected. My dad used to play her music a lot in the 80's. Her music was like the sound track of our lives. She had a lot of hits. The guy she married and had her daughter with looked like John Travolta and was 11 years younger than her. Also strange what happened with the other guy she was in a relationship with who disappeared. Lots of hardship in her life, but she seemed to exude joy, and had lots of talent and success and remained a good person. RIP.

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Anonymous wrote:The Post obituary said Olivia's grandfather had won the Nobel Prize for Physics--fascinating!

And her dad was a spy who interrogated Germans close to Hitler.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post obituary said Olivia's grandfather had won the Nobel Prize for Physics--fascinating!

And her dad was a spy who interrogated Germans close to Hitler.

Wow. I'd like to a see a movie about that!

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Anonymous wrote:The Post obituary said Olivia's grandfather had won the Nobel Prize for Physics--fascinating!

And her dad was a spy who interrogated Germans close to Hitler.

This story she told hit me...I read recently that when she was younger her father would smoke every night while reading to her before bed (she was six i think she said). And then she innocently added that she went to sleep with the smell of smoke on her pajamas, and she would smell the smoke on her arms and would cuddle up and inhale it, as it comforted her and reminded her of her beloved father. She did this night after night. Crazy to imagine...glad we live in a different era. May she rest in peace.

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I wonder if second hand smoke can cause breast cancer.