ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I was watching the biography channel the other day, where they had a 2 hour tribute to Elizabeth Taylor.  I had no idea she had suffered so many tragic losses!  She lost so many of her co-stars, with whom she was very close, either tragically or too soon:  Montgomery Clift, Roddy McDowell, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Paul Newman, Eddie Fisher and, of course, Richard Burton.  Her third husband, with whom she was madly in love and had had a new baby, died tragically in a plane crash (in which she was invited to go with, but was ill and didn't go).  Then, there was her good friend, Michael Jackson, with whom she felt a kindred spirit, since they were both child stars and weren't able to enjoy normal childhoods.  At one point, she even questioned why she was still here, when so many of the people she had loved, had died.  Interestingly, we were never witness to her grief.  We WERE witness to her prescription drug and alcohol addictions and her many physical ailments, tho, weren't we?  She just had to be dying inside, piece by piece.  I admire her so much more now, for her fighting spirit to keep on keeping on, staying active in mind and spirit, despite the numerous and devastating heartaches she endured.  May she rest in peace.