>>>My sincere condolances. You'll always have people here to chat with when times are tougher.
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>>Thanks.
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>>The toughest thing is yet to come. I need to go though her personal things and decide what to keep, what to send to her children (and when), and what to donate. If I can make it though that, I just might make it myself.
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>Any chance one of her children will help you do it? That is going to be a difficult task in any event, even harder to go through alone.

Unfortunately, they too live the Seattle area of Washington, and are teenagers.