She was a 52-year-old female, German-born European, who had settled into the quiet edges of Anchor Point after a life that began in Hessen and wandered toward Alaska’s cold seas and big skies. On June 2, 2016, at her home in Anchor Point, Carmen Valentine-Garcia died, leaving behind the outlines of a life people recognized instantly: the farmer’s steadiness she carried with her, the way she kept gravitating to animals—anything with fur or feathers—and the time she gave to the Homer Anima
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