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==Stuart Sutcliffe== <!-- Put references into this article from books or web pages or your edit will be deleted --> Sutcliffe wrote to friends that he was infatuated with Kirchherr, and asked her friends which colours, films, books and painters she liked, and whom she fancied. Best later commented that the beginning of their relationship was, "like one of those fairy stories".{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=225}} Kirchherr says that she immediately fell in love with Sutcliffe, and referred to him as "the love of my life".<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/> Kirchherr and Sutcliffe got engaged in November 1960, and exchanged rings, as is the German custom.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=65}} Sutcliffe later wrote to his parents that he was engaged to Kirchherr, which they were shocked to learn, as they thought he would give up his career as an artist,{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=235}} although he told Kirchherr that he would like to be an art teacher in London or Germany in the future.<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/> Kirchherr and Sutcliffe went to Liverpool in the summer of 1961, as Kirchherr wanted to meet Sutcliffe's family (and to see Liverpool) before their marriage. Everybody was expecting a strange [[beatnik]] artist from Hamburg, but Kirchherr turned up at the Sutcliffes' house at 37 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, bearing a single long-stemmed orchid in her hand as a present, and dressed in a round-necked cashmere sweater and tailored skirt.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=278}} In February 1962, Sutcliffe collapsed in the middle of an art class in Hamburg. He was suffering from intense headaches, and Kirchherr's mother had German doctors perform checks on him, although they were unable to determine the cause of his headaches. While living at the Kirchherrs' house in Hamburg, his condition deteriorated. On 10 April 1962, Kirchherr received a phone call from her mother, who informed her that Sutcliffe had collapsed again, was brought back to the house and an ambulance had been called for.<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/> Kirchherr rushed home and rode with Sutcliffe in the ambulance, but he died in her arms before it reached the hospital.{{sfn|Lennon|2005|p=110}} Three days later Kirchherr met Lennon, McCartney and Best at the Hamburg airport (they were returning to Hamburg to perform) and told them Sutcliffe had died of a brain haemorrhage.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=305}} Harrison and manager [[Brian Epstein]] arrived on another plane sometime later with Sutcliffe's mother, who had been informed by telegram.<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/> Harrison and Lennon were helpful towards the distraught Kirchherr, with Lennon telling her one day that she definitely had to decide if she wanted to "live or die, there is no other question."<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/>
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