# She is gone.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-is-gone/582937>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 23, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-is-gone/582937 "2011-05-23T19:12:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-is-gone/582937/21 "2011-05-25T06:18:09Z")

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Sorry for your loss, **AK84** , my condolences to you and your family.

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**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-is-gone/582937/22 "2011-05-25T18:01:07Z")

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I am very sorry for your loss, and I completely identify. I lost my Grandma in 2008. I miss her terribly. She was a war widow, who lost her husband six weeks after my dad was born. She raised him as a single parent until my dad was in his teens, when she remarried a wonderful man. As her only child 's only daughter I was spoiled with girly pink frilly things, dolls, and tea sets. (I was a tom-boy). She was ridiculously proud of me, from getting an A on a spelling test to my university accomplishments.

When we interred her ashes I suddenly got very pissed off that someone DARED put my grandmother in a box, in the ground. She doesn’t like dirt, or dampness. There had better not be any draughts.

I hope your grandma and mine are snuggy warm and cozy.

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