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context: The 'We explain' seems to boil down to "she's a mad fucking liar". >
  
  Thanks, I really didn't want to open another tab ... >
  
  She got better. >
  
  r/unexpectedmontypython >
  
  It's always like the spanish inquisition >
  
  Rumours of her death were greatly exaggerated. >
  
  Remember Reach >
  
  Why would you do this? I get it that she needed to take a break and get help, OK, but then just, well, go away and get help. Hire someone to manage to accounts or ma age them yourself. 
  My God, all of these people are insane for thinking this was OK. >
  
  For money, people bought her book out of sympathy. >
  
  And donated to her funeral. I can’t wait for the fraud charges. I’ve lost people I really loved to suicide and this was painful for a lot of us. >
  
  Aren't mysterious disappearances and faked deaths a little cliché for writers? No? Don't fix what ain't broken? Got it. >
  
  Wouldn’t be surprised if someone sues over this, especially if she made money off of the fraud. Is faking one’s own death to make money, especially from donations to a supposed funeral, illegal? >
  
  So I read the excerpt for Love to Last a Lifetime on Amazon.com. Here's the first paragraph:
  
  From the moment I laid eyes on Greta, I knew she was meant to be loved by me for a lifetime. She'd been talking to my best friend's girlfriend and her smile drew me in like a moth to a flame. Who would have ever guessed our story would be one for the ages?
  
  That is, without a doubt, the single worst opening paragraph I've read in a long time. There are so many issues with it, I don't know where to begin. >
  
  She has the same accountant as Hotblack Desiato. >
  
  This is a niche joke, but I appreciated it. >
  
  Ooooo. That's a nice way to put it. I shall be telling my wife that the jokes she rolls her eyes at are "niche". Thank you! >
  
  Did she collect the insurance money? >
  
  I thought insurance didn't pay out for suicides? Maybe that's just a popular plot device and has little basis in reality that I just accepted as truth.... but I'm drunk on Reddit so I won't bother researching... >
  
  It does so long as you don't buy it intending to suicide, policies will often exclude suicide for 1-2 years as well. >
  
  That sounds believable, thanks >
  
  Many states have statutes that actually prohibit denying life insurance benefits if it’s been a certain amount of time after the policy was purchased. Usually a year or two. >
  
  She's dead to me now >
  
  So did the daughter know she was still alive? >
  
  Agatha Christie called and said “hold my drink” >
  
  Finally got the attention she needed after so long. >
  
  Did she not leave her house?  Did her neighbors or acquaintances never see her. >
  
  she was probably writing under a penname, and the only people who knew her as susan whatevs probably only knew her online. It's possible no one met her IRL or were in her life regularly outside of the internet. >
  
  Who? >
  
  Uuuh huh. >
  
  This article just makes the whole situation more confusing and opens up a thousand questions. I give it a D. >
  
  Jesus did it better.