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cyclonefence

(4,483 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:18 PM Sep 2018

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I'm taking stupid pleasure

in the fact that the week my favorite aunt, Florence, died, she got a hurricane named after her. Dreadful as this storm is, it still reminds me of my Aunt Florence, who wasn't dreadful at all. Ninety-six years old and a class act to the end.

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I'm taking stupid pleasure (Original Post) cyclonefence Sep 2018 OP

Pretty cool! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2018 #1

Not a stupid pleasure, cyclonefence. My Great-aunt Florence died long ago, Glorfindel Sep 2018 #2

I think we had the same Aunt Florence! cyclonefence Sep 2018 #4

Think of it as not "dreadful" but mighty. Laffy Kat Sep 2018 #3

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,549 posts)

1. Pretty cool!

Reply to cyclonefence (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:33 PM

Sep 2018

Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)

2. Not a stupid pleasure, cyclonefence. My Great-aunt Florence died long ago,

Reply to cyclonefence (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 02:07 PM

Sep 2018

but I think of her with great fondness. After my mother died, Aunt Florence called me every Sunday to make sure I was doing OK.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

4. I think we had the same Aunt Florence!

Reply to Glorfindel (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 02:32 PM

Sep 2018

Laffy Kat

(16,383 posts)

3. Think of it as not "dreadful" but mighty.

Reply to cyclonefence (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 02:13 PM

Sep 2018

If your aunt lived until ninety-six, she had to have been mighty.

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