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Beyond the Golden Gate: Adhering to Last Wishes Can Be a Bitch

Remember to bring a big enough bucket

Denise Shelton
8 min readApr 23, 2021

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Photo by Lalit Gupta on Unsplash

“I didn’t hear you say that.”

Mary, the administrative assistant at the cremation service, looked grave. I didn’t realize she was giving me the old wink, wink, nudge, nudge. She sensed I did not compute.

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