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I first met พิม ศิริสิมะ aka Natalie aka Pim aka Marsha in 2005 and we were friends for a year or two but then lost touch. We met again in 2009 and stayed in touch by email, phone-calls, Skype calls and Facebook every week since we reunited in 2009. I knew พิม ศิริสิมะ as Natalie; her Thai friends and family knew her as Pim, and in some Travel – related Courier jobs she was often known as Marsha In any of those personas she could be wonderful and she could be annoying. She could be funny and she could be exasperating. 
 Whether as พิม ศิริสิมะ or Natalie or Pim or Marsha she cared very much about others and her family but had a "hard shell" which (maybe) was her defense against her true feelings. We used to joke that พิม ศิริสิมะ aka Natalie aka Pim aka Marsha was "same-same" but "different". I changed that "different" to "difficult", because, as Natalie, she could, on occasions, be very "moody" and very "difficult". She had a liver problem but seemed in the last 18 months to have that under control. I was shocked and saddened by the news of her passing, 3 days ago. - She was 32 years old. Her funeral/cremation was yesterday, 31st December 2014 in Nong Khai. – Her family said because it would be bad for her spirit to go into 2015. Although I am in Bangkok on a 3-week gig, my employers would not give me the time off to fly to Nong Khai to pay my respects to her and to her family. Her family sent me photos. พิม ศิริสิมะ aka Natalie aka Pim was taken from this world too soon - and will be greatly missed by her family and many friends, to whom I offer my condolences. A light has gone out in the world - but, maybe, when we look to the stars from now on they will be "same-same" but "different" I will always remember Natalie with great affection.