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In reply to the discussion: A class act turns 90. [View all]

DFW

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3. Yeah, we had better order a DNA test!
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:58 PM
Sep 2017

Last edited Tue Sep 26, 2017, 05:59 AM - Edit history (1)



The things she has seen and gone through, losing brothers killed in a war, one of them only a few miles from home while retreating, had cancer twice (like my wife has), etc. One time when her husband was dying, she took to the task of caring for him so intensively that she had to be hospitalized herself. She had forgotten to eat or drink, and nearly died of kidney failure. But if she can bounce back from being bombed and strafed, she can bounce back from that, too, and sure enough, she did.

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