Received word last night that the father of a lady I went to high school with passed away. So sad. My own mother passed away in June so I can definitely empathize. I guess now that I crossed that threshold that is 50 years old, this is going to be the exception rather than the norm anymore. I still live in the town in which I graduated high school and so do most of the parents of those 48 other "kids" I graduated all those years ago. I used to measure the movement of time by watching my children grow and move from grade to grade.
Now that they are adults, I guess this is my new time piece. The ticking of the hands on this clock, marking the reduction of those that knew me when I was just a gawky kid who worked at her father's grocery store... My paternal grandmother lived until she was 92 in her own home and ultimately passed away at the age of 96 while in a nursing facility. She burried her husband and 14 of her 15 siblings... I wonder if it ever crossed her mind that the people who probably knew her best, were no longer here to mourn her passing? Is this the price we will all pay for living a longer life?
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