She was preparing for bed when she thought she heard the doorbell ring again, and again her first thought was that it had to be Ilsa, come to apologize.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

She thought so again while she watched from her dining-room window a garda car arriving, and an ambulance soon after that.

NEWYORKER: Bravado

But by mid-2009, Yarrow told a Washington radio station that the singer's condition had worsened again and thought she would no longer be able to perform.

BBC: US folk singer Mary Travers dies

The aspirations that had launched her from San Francisco and back again marked the way she thought about art and its cultural role.

NEWYORKER: What She Said

The losses forced her out of early retirement at 53 to start working again -- or so she thought.

CNN: Job club fights on with laughter, song

So I think that -- again, he was -- he thought she was very gracious.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

"There were times I thought I would never compete again", she later recalled.

ECONOMIST: Obituary in brief

There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast