<div><div dir="auto">I am als the oldest of nine! (“Oversexed Cartholics,” my mother used to!say,). Weveere fortunate in that iur parents were good parents. Thank goodness.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">mac</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 7:56 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hugs and godspeed.<br>
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On 7/25/19 12:07 PM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> Mother's breathing tube was pulled on Tuesday night, her vitals are <br>
> slowly lowering, and she's being kept comfortable with the best <br>
> hospital drugs available. At least one person from the family is with <br>
> her round-the-clock.<br>
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> I returned home last night. If she's still with us on Saturday I'll <br>
> drive back up to do what I can to help.<br>
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> I saw my youngest brother James, whom I haven't seen 15 years.<br>
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> On 7/25/19 11:58 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
>> I come from a large family (I'm the oldest of nine), and none of us <br>
>> consider my mother to have been a good mom and we all recognize that <br>
>> the was very likely mentally ill, so thankfully I have no such <br>
>> expectations with which to deal.<br>
>><br>
>> Christine Hall<br>
>> Publisher & Editor<br>
>> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
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>> On 7/23/19 1:35 PM, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
>>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz <br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>>>> My mom passed recently and we weren't close either, but it can <br>
>>>> still hit you hard.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Indeed.<br>
>>><br>
>>> There’s also the battling emotions of “Everyone expects me to be <br>
>>> heartbroken and I don’t know what to say.” That’s how I felt after <br>
>>> my mother-in-law died. I didn’t shed a tear, but everybody was <br>
>>> braced for me to be upset. Dealing with their expectations was… odd.<br>
>>><br>
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