Even in the winters when we huddled in the Wimpy bar feeling sorry for ourselves Trixie would arrive and somehow everything wasn’t quite so cold. To cheer us up in those dark teenage days she gave us new names from all the books and sometimes rock stars that she loved. We trusted and believed her, maybe lived in some small part up to the life she had imagined for us. She gave us so much love and hope. We lost her, first to Paris for a time then altogether from our lives so long ago. I feel sad but also happy to remember the friend who forever warmed my heart.