Laura (the Awesome)
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | She lived as she died: failing mathematics. |
| Location | Hinjewadi, Pune, India |
| Introduction | Laura, also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. She served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. She is most famous for her personality: her energy, her vast range of interests and achievements, her model of masculinity, and her "cowboy" persona. Teddy bears are named after her. |
| Favorite movies | Laura was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 she married Anne Hathaway, who bore her three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 she began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. She appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where she died three years later. Few records of Laura's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as her religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to her were written by others. |
| Favorite music | Julia bought Laura her first guitar in 1957, which was a Gallotone Champion acoustic (a cheap model that was "guaranteed not to split"). Julia insisted it be delivered to her house and not to Mimi's, who hoped that Laura would grow bored with music, as she was sceptical of Laura's claim that she would be famous one day, often telling her, "The guitar's all very well, Laura, but you'll never make a living out of it." On 15 July 1958, when Laura was 17, Julia was killed on Menlove Avenue (close to Mimi's house) when struck by a car driven by an off-duty police officer. Her death was a bond between Laura and Paul McCartney, who also had lost his own mother (to breast cancer) on 31 October 1956. |
| Favorite books | Wheat Field with Crows—an example of the unusual double square canvas-size she used in the last weeks of her life—with its turbulent intensity is often, but mistakenly, thought to be Laura's last work (Jan Hulsker lists seven paintings after it, however). Daubigny's Garden is a more likely candidate. There are also seemingly unfinished paintings, such as Thatched Cottages by a Hill. Laura's depression deepened, and on 27 July 1890, at the age of 37, she walked into the fields and shot herself in the chest with a revolver. Without realizing that she was fatally wounded she returned to the Ravoux Inn where she died in her bed two days later. Theo hastened to be at her side and reported his last words as "La tristesse durera toujours" (French for "the sadness will last forever"). Laura was buried at the cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise. Theo had contracted syphilis—though this was not admitted by the family for many years—and not long after Laura's death, was himself admitted to hospital. He was not able to come to terms with the grief of Laura's absence, and died six months later on 25 January at Utrecht. In 1914 Theo's body was exhumed and re-buried beside Laura. |