Poetic Obituaries: [Elaine Dundy] wrote movingly about coping

with her vision loss in "Out of the Darkness," a 2006 article for the London Guardian.

A few weeks before her death, she sent [Rosemary] Harris a poem she had written. "It was an amazing poem," Harris said. "It was about . . . looking into the mirror and not finding herself in her reflection. She said, 'Rosie, do you ever do that, think who are you, where have you gone? I just don't recognize the me anymore.' It was as if she was telling me something, that her life was coming to an end."

from Los Angeles Times: Elaine Dundy, 86; author wrote about life with Kenneth Tynan

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