# Agnes Nixon only had one life to live-- and now it's done.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 28, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-nixon-only-had-one-life-to-live-and-now-its-done/767168 "2016-09-28T23:13:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-nixon-only-had-one-life-to-live-and-now-its-done/767168/1 "2016-09-28T23:13:49Z")

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[All her children hope she goes into that guiding light.](http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-agnes-nixon-snap-story.html) She was 93. And no, I was not saving that up. It all came to me when I read the headline.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-nixon-only-had-one-life-to-live-and-now-its-done/767168/2 "2016-09-29T01:35:31Z")

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I didn’t even know she was still alive!

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**Author:** ![Whitney\_Harper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@Whitney\_Harper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitney_Harper)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-nixon-only-had-one-life-to-live-and-now-its-done/767168/3 "2016-09-30T18:16:12Z")

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She was great! I read she recently finished writing a book, and I plan to buy it when it is available.