Not fair.
Lis Sladen is gone.
I don't cry over celebrity deaths. Within the last 5 years, both my "parents" (grandparents, but they raised me) died, and I didn't cry. Right now I feel like an orphaned nine-year-old.
Tom Baker was My Doctor. Sarah Jane was My Companion. There will never be another.
From stoplookingup, here's a clip of Lis talking about what should have been: Sarah Jane growing into a wonderfully "batty old woman in the attic". Here's also a lovely tribute by RTD via dreamer_easy, and a gif that I won't be able to look at for a while now, from manatees via ladymako71:
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