Remembering Di

Ten years ago today, one of the good ones died.

It was an unimaginable end. I still remember hearing the gasp my mother let out when she found out quite late in the night what had happened in Paris. I didn’t understand right away why she should feel so sad for a woman she never knew, and it wasn’t until the next day that I realized what an icon we had lost, what potential would go untapped. The world was less graceful.

Princess Diana’s candle burned out long before, indeed, but her legend never will.

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