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On realizing I'm the grownup in the room...

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When the death of an aunt means the end of an era.

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Meagan Francis
Jun 03, 2024
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Yesterday my Aunt Paula died at age 78.

The family had been working to get her from Chicago to Florida since March, and she finally made it - though with some serious setbacks along the way - and, just a couple of weeks after traveling she was released to hospice care, dying just a few days later.

As I wrote about in early April, Aunt Paula was a force an…

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