To: Dame Anita's family

I was shocked and saddened to learn of Dame Anita Roddick' demise. Please accept my deepest sympathy. As I spilled back onto my road in SE19 I heard the news today with great dismay. With head in hand I turned to the Heavens and asked it time and time again why, why, why but the stillness of its response was equal to the reticence of a monk. Indeed, she was summoned to face the gates of purgatory at whatever time it was that Autumn evening. The world has never known the like of Dame Anita, she was a pioneer to go back to nature issues and as I asked the lord what on earth was he/she thinking about when the idea of ending Anita's existence came about I could not help but feeling a mighty roar of affliction engulfing inside me. Her widespread and her far-reaching benevolence, and what she did for the world as a whole would not be lost in time. Certainly, she was a large than life figure. Absent-minded I was not when I heard on the wireless again and again, the broadcasting of her unexpected demise.  Indeed, the Dame is dead. Her life washed away from her body by a wild storm of feeble ineffectual physical self-righteous ailment which had an unremitting influence over her mortal life. I know that the will of the almighty must be respected and all that jazz but Anita's speedy doom is causing misery wherever she was known. Anita your name the world will forever know but your philanthropy will be missed by many. Albeit Anita breathed out her last her humanity will forever live in the heart of those who appreciated her personal distinctive inclination to do good in the world as a whole. As I bid her farewell, my heart is my hands crying the tears that don't necessarily show but which are most sincerely an honest emotional reaction to her demise. Addio Anita.

P. Figueras