Mom asked if I could give Nona’s elegy at the service next Tuesday. <\/p>\n
I like to write, and am pretty good at being wordy as need be. But it’s … not an easy task, obviously. Encompassing a tribute to one woman’s life into the given parameters (one page, single spaced, per the parish’s guidelines) would be difficult enough. Doing her justice is nearly impossible.<\/p>\n
I’ll let you know what I come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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