“Real World San Diego” Star Frankie Abernathy Dies

Real World San Diego’s resident punk rock prom queen Frankie Abernathy died on Saturday at her mother’s home in Shorewood, Wisconsin. She was twenty-five.
Frankie suffered from hereditary cystic fibrosis, according to MTV News. One in 3,900 American children are born with this disease and that not even half survive to the age of thirty-seven. During her time in the San Diego house, Frankie had difficulty breathing and immune-system impairment. She ultimately left the house, before the end of the season, on Halloween 2003.
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On October 29th 2008, jennie wrote:
oh gosh i didnt know that terrible story!
i love frankie and that is a very very bad new