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(Today would have been my Mother’s 87th birthday, had she lived. She unexpectedly left this life a few months after she turned 67. For her first birthday in Heaven, I sat down to write a short piece about her, to be published in our small town newspaper. When the text took a different turn, which was not really appropriate for the Obituary/Tribute section, I just tucked it away in my mement...


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