"It's dumb.  I knew Nonny wasn't going to live forever.  No one lives forever."  Miranda was still fighting back the tears, some six days after her great-aunt's funeral.  "But she really seemed like she was going to."  Great aunt Nonny was almost one hundred years old when she died, but her advanced years didn't stop her from being an active participant in all of her younger relative's lives.  … [Read more...]