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RE: 36 Days Sober: A Look Back at my Last Year of Drinking.
I'm not sure if you know this or not, and I wish I didn't have to be the one to tell you this, but Laura committed suicide on September 7th. She valued Steemit SO very much and I thank you and everyone else who has given her support and followed her on here for providing her with a loving and inspirational community.
I actually found out the day after I found her blog, read her posts and commented, I was so shocked and saddened to find out, I never knew her but I could tell she was a lovely person and a great friend <3
Why did she upvote me within the last two hours?
I had a pattern recognition failure when I saw her upvote. I had just read a ZH story: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-13/shot-vegas-security-guard-cancels-media-goes-missing-i-can-confirm-his-family-has-ga
In it, there was an independent researcher "Laura Loomer". I recognized the alliteration, but my pattern-matcher failed because this is Laura Lemons and she was Loomer.
However, that was enough for me to click her name and check her recent stories, and this one resonated because I want to stop drinking. Then I see this tragedy reported, and it negatively juxtaposes with her upvoting my post in the past two hours. Here's the post:
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@libertyteeth/steemgigs-idea-steemit-agent