John Lennon told the story many times of how Julian had come home one day from school with a drawing of a girl. Who’s that? asked his dad.

That’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds, said Julian. In recent years Lucy Vodden had contracted Lupus, a disease in which the immune system attacks body tissue.

Julian Lennon had reached out to Lucy Vodden again. But at the age of 46 this week, Lucy passed away. Immortalized though in music and — oddly — in the name given to a 3-million-year-old skeleton kept in a glass case in Ethiopia.

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