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| | Emma Brockes on Caron Keating's death | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | Oh no. How is that possible?" And to her great surprise, and mine, we had the sort of conversation usually reserved for the death of a major public figure; that is, shocked, gutted and followed by a need, on getting off the phone, to call everyone else in our address books. |
 | | To understand where this comes from, you have to understand the nature of the programme and the place it once occupied in the hearts of children, pre-cable, pre-internet, when it used to snare 12 million viewers twice a week. |
 | | Everyone I spoke to referred to the fact that Keating didn't make a fuss; there was no press conference, no public documentary of her illness. |
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