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[quote=Anonymous]Just came here to say that I'm another person who read Dooce really frequently years and years ago before I had kids - I read her more for what was at the time, her snarky attitude and her stories about life as a mom/wife plus stories about her Award Winning Avon Saleslady mom and growing up in a very Mormon house (I'm not Mormon).

Then her writing really took a super off the rails/narcissistic turn (yes, even more than it was at the time). She wrote about bands as if SHE DISCOVERED THEM and no one else had ever heard of them before she posted about them on her blog, she started stealing stuff from The Bloggess (who is awesome) etc. Every now and again I'd go back and see what she was on about. Saw that her and Jon divorced. She started dating that really young guy and was flying all over with him/to see him and then that ended (seemingly by him). I sort of really fell out after that.

But hearing the news last week really hit me. One, I'm a mom now. Two, even though I knew she was off the rails most of her life, I was truly shocked about her taking her life with Marlo and Leta behind. I know those who are suicidal aren't thinking in those terms when they take their lives (Anthony Bourdain comes to mind regarding leaving his daughter behind) but yeah, it was really shocking to me. I feel for those two and I hope that the whole family circles around them, supports them and protects them. They had a front row seat to how unraveled their mother really was, more so than we ever even saw through her writing. It must've been a rollercoaster and then it ends this way.

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