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[jesuispeure]

My great-grandmother Mimi passed away yesterday after four days in the hospital. She was 92 years old, and she lived alone in her own home. She had told all of us that she wanted to be 96, or at least to wait until after George W. Bush was out of office, when she passed on

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And I was thinking about what Sarah Said

[runswithspoons]

Loosing someone is never easy, especially when it’s a loved one. I’m sorry for your loss and I’m sure that when she passed she felt loved, she is fortunate to have people so send her off with such love and compassion.

We are there for you.

"Then the nurse comes round and everyone lifts their head
And I'm thinking of what Sarah said but love is watching someone die

So who's going to watch you die?..."

Re: And I was thinking about what Sarah Said

[jesuispeure]

Thank you.

[lyrian]

I'm very sorry, dear one.
She had an amazing life and was clearly an equally amazing woman.

[jesuispeure]

Thank you.

[8itt3r5wee7]

I love you darling

[jesuispeure]

Thank you.

[julia37]

lovies oosta oosta

[jesuispeure]

thank you.

[krapsnart]

Thanks for posting this. I hadn't known about her work at the newspaper; I know she wanted to be a journalist, but her father forbade her to study anything except teaching, so she dropped out of college.

I'm glad you have such positive memories of her. Her legacy, like her, is complex; all my life I've heard stories about her tinged with such pain and anger and bitterness.

It's both disconcerting and a bit of a relief to have been the only grandchild too far away to come when she was aware enough to say goodbye. I wondered, when we were out there last summer, whether it would be the last time I'd see her. I feel lucky to have said goodbyes to her when she was still well and independent enough to live in the house she'd clung to so fiercely.

I'd hoped that the great-grandchild growing in me right now would have crossed paths with her, but that was not to be.