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. Compiled and edited by her sister and husband, it uses Picardie's newspaper columns and correspondence to tell the story of her life with

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, to which she succumbed in September 1997.

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*In her 1999 autobiography ''

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'',

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says she was reading ''Before I Say Goodbye'' around the time she left the

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