Remembering Karen Carpenter

34 years ago this week Karen Carpenter died at age 32. Karen's shocking death brought previously inscrutable words like anorexia nervosa & bulimia out of the shadows and into public consciousness. Karen inarguably was among the greatest singers in history, as well as an extraordinarily gifted drummer. Today, diagnosed eating disorders continue to kill new generations of Karens, who daily waste into invisibility and die in the margins, trapped in a still baffling hell of endlessly painful rainy days and Mondays. -- by Jude Camillone