In the news earlier this year: actress Michelle Trachtenberg died at just 39 years old.
When she was first introduced as Buffy’s younger sister Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it was a shock. Buffy hadn’t had a sister before. Suddenly there Dawn was being annoying and putting a cramp in Buffy’s style. But she grew on me (as younger sisters grow on their older siblings, one hopes). And I always thought, even when she was annoying, that she radiated an inner light. What a shame for that light to be extinguished so soon.