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'Sure, I knew McCaffrey at college, in first year, and once, once only, in the Biblical sense. That's why I can't write you an obituary of her, you understand. Or rather, this is my obituary, but you can't publish it like this - sorry about that. I'm sorrier still that she has died. The species is minus one great scientist and one great woman. There are no endings in a person's life except the last one but the dead leave countless endings in their slipstreams. Chesterton remarked that a suicide doesn't only kill himself, he kills everyone. McCaffrey's death feels like that...'
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