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On Christmas Day, 2019, Dr. Linda Shaver-Gleason offered the internet an important gift, as she had with reliable regularity for the past handful of years. “My present for you is to be uncomfortable for some time; just enough to make you see and question your situation,” she wrote on Twitter. “Then back to celebrating.” A musicologist, mother, and mythbuster who nurtured a vibrant and curious community of music lovers and friends, Linda was assassinated by cancer in a California hospice facility on January 14, 2020. She was 36 years old.