I'm so glad other people were like, "Wait, who's Philip?"

(Also, I'm desperately hoping that others among us read the title of her blog post and immediately got "My Immortal" stuck in his or her head. It will make me feel less alooooone.)

I'm trying to decide why it is that when LKH writes about mourning the death of her characters, it seems absurd, but when J. K. Rowling mentions that she cried for certain characters, it doesn't seem silly to me. I suppose it's because JKR does it without the histrionics.