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Kansas couple married for 67 years die hours apart
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Posted on 04/17/2009 3:49:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
How wonderful for them to spend that long together and then die the same day. They don’t even have to spend time alone in Heaven. That is pretty lucky. Of course for the kids it kinda is terrible, but knowing that both are together hopefully is settling. God Bless them. Prayers to the grieving family though.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
04/17/2009 3:53:01 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
("He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose")
To: JoeProBono
About ten years ago I remember the story of a younger couple. She died at home of an asthma attack. The husband died from electrocution on a construction site before he ever found out.
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posted on
04/17/2009 3:53:40 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: JoeProBono
To: napscoordinator
They don’t even have to spend time alone in Heaven. Depending on the type of Heaven, a person wouldn't necessarily to separated from a loved even if they die years apart.
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posted on
04/17/2009 3:56:15 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: napscoordinator
Of course for the kids it kinda is terrible
I bet it was a blessing to the kids
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posted on
04/17/2009 3:57:05 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: napscoordinator
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:00:01 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
67 years. That’s one soul in two bodies.
To: JoeProBono
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith “A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”
—Robert Browning
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:09:43 PM PDT
by
Paul Heinzman
(Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. --William F. Buckley Jr)
To: JoeProBono
Kurt Vonnegut described this as a “Duprass” a term meaning
two mates who die within hours of each other, a not uncommon happening with partners who have been together
for a long period of time.
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:11:58 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Paul Heinzman
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:12:02 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: napscoordinator
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:13:52 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Paul Heinzman
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
William Butler Yeats (1892)
To: JoeProBono
To: Paved Paradise
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:15:40 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Clock King
“The two shall become one.” Yes, two souls in one body, indeed.
To: tet68
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:19:03 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I fear the day when I or my wife passes on. I don't know who will be best able to carry on. I know it will be hard for me either way - to leave her or me to be without her.
I cherish every day we have together.
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:21:59 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
To: Paved Paradise
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posted on
04/17/2009 4:23:20 PM PDT
by
Paul Heinzman
(Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. --William F. Buckley Jr)
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