I Also Come in Threes

First Duke Snider, then the last doughboy, and now the chick on the cover of Freewheelin':

Susan "Suze" Rotolo, who inspired some of Bob Dylan's most intense songs and later spent much of her own life trying not to be known as Dylan's former girlfriend, died Friday night after a long illness. She was 67.

Rotolo lives in Dylan lore as the inspiration for some of his most bittersweet love songs, including "Boots of Spanish Leather," "Tomorrow is a Long Time" and the razor-edged "Don't Think Twice."

She also became permanently engraved in Dylan lore as the girl on the cover of his 1963 "Freewheelin' " album. 

This is shaping up to be quite a death week - what else will soon fall, my current hot streak of mother/daughter threesomes?