A woman who was diagnosed with stage-fourovarian cancerannounced her own death this week.
“A note to my friends: if you’re reading this it means I have passed away. I’m so sorry, it’s horses— and we both know it,“Casey Ryan McIntyrewrote in a pre-planned obituary published onInstagramMonday, the day after her death.
The cover photo of the carousel was a group picture of McIntyre, her husband Andrew Rose Gregory, and their daughter Grace Valentine smiling.
“I loved each and every one of you with my whole heart and I promise you, I knew how deeply I was loved,” the 38-year-old vice president and publisher at Penguin Random House’s Razorbill added.
Gregory later updated the post, noting that McIntyre “meant to finish this post with a list of things that were a comfort & a joy to her during her life, and I am heartbroken that I will never see that list. As she grew sicker she couldn’t finish it.”
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The Manhattan native and Tenafly, New Jersey transplant was a known bibliophile, who “saw herself in every child sprawled out on a couch, rug, or bunk bed engrossed in theirlatest book obsession,” according to the obituary her husband published.
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As a kid, when McIntyre wasn’t nestled away reading, she could be found at YMCA Camp Fuller in Rhode Island, swimming, sailing and gossiping. During college in Decatur, Georgia, she studied music and creative writing.
“Until her end,” McIntyre’s happy place was always the water, preferably lounging in the pool with a book.
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According to her obituary, early in her career, she interviewed at Penguin Random House on a particularly rainy day. However, she didn’t let a little bit of bad weather interfere with her dreams.
“Soaked to the bone from a rainstorm,” she “left as a publicist’s assistant.”
As her career progressed, she “was incredibly proud to have supported a series of remarkable authors throughout her career as a publicist at Penguin Young Readers Group, a publicist at Harper Collins, and as Publisher at Razorbill including Katherine Applegate, The Tiny Chef, Brian Jacques, Akilah Hughes,” and more.
Publisher’s Weeklyrecognized McIntyre as a 2015PWStar Watch Honoree.
Gregory thanked the “top-notch medical” providers who allowed her loved ones to have “four more years with Casey.”
To keep her legacy alive, as well as to help others, her family will pay off medical bills to people in need.
source: people.com
