i don't need this.

This is a sad day for my childhood. Lloyd Alexander died Thursday at age 83, of cancer. He just finished a book, "The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio" which is based off Middle Eastern tales, and it will be out in August. I always had the dream of meeting him someday, and letting him know just how much my adventers with Taran and Princess Eilonwy influenced my writing. But now that dream is gone.
May God bless him and his family.

I'm on the verge of crying my eyes out. And I don't know why.