Sadly, our long-time friend and forum member, Laurence, has passed away.

For 5 years, ever since her very first post, she was always helpful and kind to everyone in the LDW community. She was especially fond of the children here and went out of her way to be a sympathetic friend to them. One of her favorite "hangouts" here was Fan Fiction. She wrote her own stories and spent countless hours reading the stories of others and encouraging budding authors.

Since Laurence was such a good friend to many of us, as well as someone who helped and cheered everyone around her, we decided that it would be a fitting tribute to her, and all that she meant to us, to open up a thread where her friends could share their memories of Laurence and how her friendship touched them.

Laurence was a treasured, loyal friend to me, and I will miss her.

I am going to raise the limit on the number of images that can be included in a post in this thread, since I want everyone to have the creative freedom they need to express their thoughts and tributes. Laurence always loved emoticons (smileys), and they count as images here in the forums!

altough i never met Laurence she seemed very nice

Oh wow. I have no words to express how I'm feeling, so I will just say Farewell Laurence, you will be dearly missed.

Mind if I ask what happened? Anyways, yea its sad, even though I don't think I know here very well.

I believe I had talked to Laurence a few times on forums. I joined this site practically 4 years ago, I can't believe how long it's been.. anyways, from what I remember of Laurence, she is a very nice person that does try to do her best to help us. I'm sad to hear that she's gone now, but I'm glad I got to talk to her a couple times

I remember Laurence She was a good friend and a gentle person. Even when I was really bad at writing she encouraged me to keep trying, and now I'm creating entire original casts to use for stories, which I probably wouldn't be if it was not for her.

I'm going to miss her. She's a good inspiration.

This makes me incredibly sad to hear. I'm not even an active member of the forum anymore, but I felt I had to return briefly after hearing about this.
I always enjoyed talking to Laurence, back when I was here more regularly, and she will be greatly missed.

I cant believe it, Laurence is gone. I loved seeing all the little unique smileys she would post. Today is truly a very sad day in LDW history.

Perhaps we could fill this link with emoticons in memory of Laurence. She would have loved that. Here are a few that she would have left for you all if she had had a chance to say goodbye: