They’ve Flown Away

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I just lost two aunts in a week’s time. Wondrous women, both. Mary Beth and Jean. Mary Beth was 96 and Jean was just shy of 90. Mary Beth was Mom’s oldest sibling and Jean was her sister-in-law, her brother Dave’s wife. They both passed days after a fall.

Death is an unpleasant marker/rite of passage for where I am now in my life. Others’ deaths, not my own thankfully. Not for a long while yet, hopefully. But they lived long full…