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1. When my grandmother died at 89, her sisters gathered around the coffin and said...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:43 AM

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..."She was so young."

It isn't polite to laugh at a wake, particularly at one's elders, so I suppressed my reaction.

To have lived to 96 and to have left, in this case literally a mark on the world is an honorable thing. It was a life well lived.

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