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A few weeks ago Bud's mom called to let us know that his grandmother wasn't doing so well. They x-rayed her at the hospital and, couldn't be sure without a biopsy, but thought it was probably lung cancer. Over the last couple of weeks she slipped into sleeps where her blood pressure dropped and then took a while to return to normal. This morning she passed away. I didn't know her very well and so I feel a little fake writing something about her, except that I am about to marry her grandson. And maybe in that way know her very well. Am inexorably tied to her, will have her great-grandchildren who may just carry a gene that allows them to take something complicated apart and then put it back together. Or, a child who smiles like an old picture of Evelyn and another who laughs a laugh I've never heard, but the world heard first 70-odd years ago.