RIP Chris Ceraolo
Oct. 12th, 2010 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerI found out that my friend Chris aka Skates had passed away this past weekend after a long bout with cancer. I knew that she had been fighting it but I didn’t know that it had come back.
Chris and I met at some darn convention. Neither of us could really remember which one. It could have been an Atlanta Fantasy Fair or a Dixie Trek or even a MOC but we did meet. It was one of those cases that was best put by the Great Gonzo in the Muppet Movie, “There’s not a word yet for old friends who just met.” And that’s how it was for Chris and me. We hit it off and became fast convention buddies over a weekend for a friendship that lasted more years than either of us were willing to admit. We found it amusing that people would mistake us for each other so she was my sort of twin but not really.
Our touchstone was DragonCon. We always managed to find the time to catch up on news and life there. There would be hugs and then we would tell each other what had happened since we last met. She did know about Peter and me before I could tell her but that one went around southern fandom pretty fast. I remember introducing her to Caroline as a baby. She held her for a little while and told me how beautiful she was.
It was DragonCon 2009 that I found out what had been happening to her in the previous year. I went to get my badges and I saw Chris with her head wrapped in a scarf and she looked rather frail. My heart fell into my stomach. Our catching up that year consisted of her telling me about her year. But it ended on what seemed a positive note.
I didn’t see her this year but I ran through check-in with Regina and got distracted. I figured I would see her sometime during the weekend, I always did. It wasn’t until yesterday when I heard that she had passed that I realized I hadn’t seen her at DragonCon.
Chris was one of the good ones. She was always willing to help however she could. She always had a nice smile for everyone. She had a wicked wit that could keep up with the O’Sheas (not an easy thing to do). She was my friend and I will miss her.
I am grateful that I knew Chris and that we were friends.
Chris and I met at some darn convention. Neither of us could really remember which one. It could have been an Atlanta Fantasy Fair or a Dixie Trek or even a MOC but we did meet. It was one of those cases that was best put by the Great Gonzo in the Muppet Movie, “There’s not a word yet for old friends who just met.” And that’s how it was for Chris and me. We hit it off and became fast convention buddies over a weekend for a friendship that lasted more years than either of us were willing to admit. We found it amusing that people would mistake us for each other so she was my sort of twin but not really.
Our touchstone was DragonCon. We always managed to find the time to catch up on news and life there. There would be hugs and then we would tell each other what had happened since we last met. She did know about Peter and me before I could tell her but that one went around southern fandom pretty fast. I remember introducing her to Caroline as a baby. She held her for a little while and told me how beautiful she was.
It was DragonCon 2009 that I found out what had been happening to her in the previous year. I went to get my badges and I saw Chris with her head wrapped in a scarf and she looked rather frail. My heart fell into my stomach. Our catching up that year consisted of her telling me about her year. But it ended on what seemed a positive note.
I didn’t see her this year but I ran through check-in with Regina and got distracted. I figured I would see her sometime during the weekend, I always did. It wasn’t until yesterday when I heard that she had passed that I realized I hadn’t seen her at DragonCon.
Chris was one of the good ones. She was always willing to help however she could. She always had a nice smile for everyone. She had a wicked wit that could keep up with the O’Sheas (not an easy thing to do). She was my friend and I will miss her.
I am grateful that I knew Chris and that we were friends.
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Date: 2010-10-12 03:46 pm (UTC)Very sorry for your loss.
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Date: 2010-10-12 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-13 01:07 am (UTC)