Friendship, Loss, and Healing: Adelaide's Journey

0:00Debra Adelaide and Gabrielle Carey bonded on their first day of high school after missing the bus home. Both bookworms in a sports-obsessed suburban school, they felt like total misfits that unlikely start led them both to riding careers spanning 50 years. Adelaide's dropped 18 books, including her hit novel The Household Guide to Dying from 2008, and she teaches creative riding now. Carey burst onto the scene in 19 with puberty blues, co-written with Kathy Lett, ripping apart the sexist surf culture of the 70s. But depression haunted her, just like her dad, who died young, it got worse in her 60s, and despite support from friends like Adelaide, she took her own life in May 2023 at age 64. Their worlds were night and day, Carey from a liberal book-filled home full of big ideas while Adelaide grew up conservative dodging anything artsy. Carey dove into beach life for her book, but Adelaide stayed clear, preferring pages over sand. Still, their friendship ran deep, like family, picking up seamless after long silences.

1:06Adelaide channels at all in her new book, when I am 64, blending real life with fiction for freedom, no strict time-mines or fact-checking. Vignette jumped through time, painting their bond, her struggles, and the raw loss, hitting universal notes on grief and mental health. Three years later, Adelaide's still processing, but writing brought some peace, answers to the wise, and a way to manage the pain without fully escaping it. From your city, powered by AI, this is Cindy News Today, I'm Corey with The Story.