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A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with thousands of people saying how much comfort it had brought them.
I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.
"Though Andrea desperately wished to have lived a longer life, they could not have possibly lived a fuller one," Gibson's family said.
The subject of Ryan White's upcoming documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light," passed away on Monday. His film will offer a stirring coda.
Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago’s “It’s OK to Ask Questions.
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'West Side Story' Star Ariana DeBose Sends Message After Poet Andrea Gibson Dies at 49 originally appeared on Parade. It was announced earlier on Monday morning that poet and activist Andrea Gibson passed away after a four-year battle with terminal ovarian cancer.
Andrea Gibson, left, and Megan Falley, the subjects of the film "Come See Me in the Good Light," pose for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan.
As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson could send a spoken word poem spinning through space and time knowing it would reach its perfect home — swishing to a close in the last lines,