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familiar and comfortable surroundings. Would we be able to move

her from the car into the house? The condition in which she was

found on a daily basis in the nursing home had declined rapidly
to the point of finding her immobile.

She sank into her cushion and said, “This is

good.”

She clapped joyfully when she saw the RAV pulled up to the
canopy. She hugged a dear caregiver in the backseat all the way

home, quickly walked – mostly unassisted – from the car into the

kitchen, sank into her cushion at the table, and said, “This is good.”
She ate heartily until the day before she died thirteen months later.

What was her state of well-being in the subsequent final months?

She continued to communicate expressively – mostly non-verbally.
When communicating verbally, it was most often in song. She

clearly loved us unconditionally, inspired us to the heavens and

back – and, all the while, she never stopped teaching. From a
daughter’s perspective as witness, it appeared she was fulfilling

her mission.