Did Someone Die?

I just had a question about something in “Intensely Alice”. When —-dies, did somebody in your teenage years die like he did? I think i read that a lot of your writing is about what happened in your teenage years. Thank you for writing the Alice books. I love them so much and my friend and i read them over and over again. You write about what every girl or boy wants to hear and the books never get boring!

No, I didn’t have a close friend die when I was in high school.  Other than elderly relatives, the first death I heard about was that of a young woman in our church who was simply crossing a busy street and a bus ran into her.  It was terribly shocking–the way she died, and the fact that she was here and healthy one day, gone the next.  My sons, however, each experienced the grief of a close friend dying–one of an illness, the other in a motorcycle accident.