I'd always assumed, from reading it as a teenager, that she died literally. I've never really noticed AF using such oblique references to events - I always took anything like that literally.
On the other hand, if Lois had thrown herself from the train on the way home, then the Old Girls would have certainly heard. If she died, it must surely have been a year or two later; and even then, you'd have thought someone would have seen it in the paper?
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Date: 2007-08-19 03:42 pm (UTC)On the other hand, if Lois had thrown herself from the train on the way home, then the Old Girls would have certainly heard. If she died, it must surely have been a year or two later; and even then, you'd have thought someone would have seen it in the paper?