Elena and I both pay close attention to the obituary section of the newspapers. It is not morbid fascination. Rather it is the fact that many of the people listed in this section had truly fascinating lives. Some lived very long lives and some were taken from us much too soon. Yesterday I read about the sad death of Dolores Ann Johnson-Street. I estimate that she was 58 years old at the time of her death. Dolores graduated from Oceans High School in 1973. She was class valedictorian. She then went to C Berkeley and graduated. She spent twenty years as an officer in the US Air Force. She married only once. She had two wonderful sons who both graduated from the US Air Force Academy and are now training to be pilots in the U.S. Air Force. Delores was one of those wonderful people who do everything right in life. Sadly she was diagnosed with leukemia. While she was under going chemotherapy, she died of a stroke. Life can be taken from us at any time. We should treasure each day we have on earth.
Life takes us in many strange directions and wonderful discoveries. It never turns out the way we thought it would.
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