Poetic Obituaries: Near the end of the Mass,

Professor John Pfordresher, who taught a poetry class at the Villa over the summer, read the last poem that [Arielle] DaCosta wrote for his class, which described waking up in Italy and looking out the window at a vista.

"The poem, her looking out over a vista with a big smile on her face, and getting distracted, really summed her up in a nutshell," Johanna Peiser (COL '11), a good friend of DaCosta's, said.

from The Georgetown Voice: Student passes away in Spain

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