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From: ksh@cbosgd.UUCP (Karen Summers-Horton)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.tv
Subject: Re: Laura Baldwin
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 13:36:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 13:36:42 1984
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The song "Think of Laura" by Christopher Cross was done is memory of
a woman named Laura Carter, an 18 year old woman who was killed in
April 1982.  Although the song was made very popular through use
in General Hospital, it WAS NOT written for the character Laura
Baldwin.  Laura Carter was a student at Denison University here is
Ohio, and a friend of Christopher Cross's girlfriend (at the time).
She was killed in Columbus, Ohio while riding in a car with her
parents.  There was a gun battle about a block away, and a stray
bullet hit her and killed her.

Apparently when the song was written, Cross had no idea it would
ever be used on General Hospital.  (Source for this is the Feb. 15
edition of the Columbus Dispatch.)

	Karen Summers-Horton