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The Major Celebrities Get A Lot Of Press When They Die. Television Programs At Year’S End And Wrap-Ups In The Periodicals. Who Died During The Year And Why We Loved Them. But What About The Ones Who Are Not Film Stars Or Ex-Presidents? There Are Many Minor Celebrities Who Die Each Year People Important In One Way Or Another To Their Communities With Little More Than An Obituary (Paid For By Their Families) To Signal Their Passing. Then It’S Back To Business As Usual.. This Is A “Little Biography” Of A Lesser Life—Lesser By Comparison With The Megastars—And May Be The Beginning Of A New Literary Form A Sociology Of Lesser Cities Not On The Map Of Cultural Capitals And The People Who Inhabit Them People Who Are Sorely Missed In Those Cities When They Are Gone And Who Have Often Exhibited Moral Qualities Of Such A Superior Nature That Mother Teresa Herself Would Applaud. . There Should Be A Biography Of Rosemary Latimore. She Was The Founder And Proprietor Of Poplar Street Books In Charlotte North Carolina From 1983 To 1999. That May Not Sound Like Much. But Just Read What They Said About Her In The Newspapers Of That Town And What The Poets And Writers Of North Carolina Said About Her And What She Had Done. That’S Part Of What I’D Like To Tell You.. She Wasn’T Totally Unknown And Her Death Was Noted In The Press. But Try Asking Someone In Seattle Or Baltimore Or St. Louis About Her. There Should Be A Book About Her A Book That Can Be Deposited And Handled An Checked Out In The Libraries Of Those Cities And Purchased In Their Yard Sales. . But The Book Is Also Inevitably About Coping With Her Death And How I Nearly Went Under. Death Unleashes A Torrent Of Regrets. This May Be One Of The Hardest Of Its Many Consequences To Bear. What You Did Or Did Not Do. Now All Hope Of Recompense Gone Irretrievably Gone.