Barbara J. Hamby

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A Mystery

Tonight on Facebook I found pictures of a writer friend in a hospital recovering from leg injuries. She lives across the country and the last time I heard from her was in late 2008. She was writing a book with the working title of There Is Life After Fifty, and had asked me, and other writers over 50, to contribute a chapter. When we were in Maui in 2008, she sent me an email asking for my input. I sent her my chapter and she wrote back later in the year to ask for my mailing address so she could send me a copy of the book when she completed it.

When I went to the Internet tonight and searched her name I found an obituary for someone with that name who died February 14th of this year. After doing more research on the web, I decided to send her an email at the last address I had to see if I get a response. It seems unlikely there would still be information placed on her Facebook page after her death. I was really looking forward to seeing her book, so I hope the report of her death is “exaggerated,” as the old quote goes