The Lady Sharrow

By Iain Aschendale · Feb 13, 2022 · 850 · 2
  1. So I belong to a Facebook group for my hometown. It's a place I ran screaming from repeatedly and will probably never live in again, but there was a Dorsai short story about the most beautiful place in the world that some might recognize.

    And a 98 year-old woman from that town recently passed away. Preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister, and one of her children.

    And her entire high school class. She was the last living member of the class of '41.

    I have friends who are younger than me, but to outlive all your friends, your earliest friends, would not seem to be a blessing.

    "Do you remember that time when...no, I suppose you wouldn't."

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  1. GrahamLewis
    Makes me think of my mother, class I think of 42; last of the aunts and uncles, all her friends are those she made over the past 10 years in a senior living place; so far as I know though, she's content.
    GrahamLewis, Feb 13, 2022
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  2. jim onion
    Makes me think I should start burning that candle at both ends again. Not too much, but just enough so I'm one of the last few, but not Thee Last One.
    jim onion, Feb 14, 2022
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