#nancy danderhoof

wait so vesper died in 2003, 23 years ago, and nancy is 51. she was 28 when she wrote that obituary. how long do you think she’d been working for the omaha sunday scoop at that point? no wonder it hit hard, a girl just a few years younger than she is, passionate and driven like she is, who never had the chance to be more. how much of nancy’s career do you think was driven by the determination that someone needs to tell the story of people who think they’ll disappear without anyone noticing, how many nights did she spend doggedly pursing a story, exhausted and upset, and pulling out that old obituary for the strength to keep pushing forwards?

"You didn't disappear, no one disappears" made me well up with such sudden tears. Here is a young woman who died. And here is the journalist who wrote her obituary, who talked to her loved ones and would have heard how passionate vesper was. And nancy saw her, when she wrote her obituary. She saw her and she remembered her, and when she noticed vampire superheros pop up and one was named bat child she knew that that was the same bright young woman. God I love nancy danderhoof