With great regret & sadness.

[Warpy]

105. I'm sorry, Mom's especiallly hard when it's time for her to go

We want them to llive forever, but if we're honest, we don't want them to live like that, bodies wearing out due to age.

My mother was also politically astute. When Nixon announced his run in 1968, my mother said "He's going to be impeached if he gets in." He would have been, had he not grabbed his pension and resigned. She spotted Reagan's dementia in 1982. I would love to know her opiinion of this bunch, I would imagine it would be pithy, accurate, and profane, but there is no way I'd have forced her to live to 116 in order to give it.

Just know that the shock will wear off quickly, the waves of grief will eventually fad,e and the memories of who she was will crowd out the ones of her last days. It will get better. It will just take some time.