*apologies to Emily Dickinson
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| Mary Dunn Brown: 1/27/1958-1/26/2017 |
My grandparents had thirteen grandchildren, but only ten of us remain on this earth. We lost my cousin Mary on January 26, 2017, just hours before her 59th birthday. Her carriage was cancer. Her journey was swift. Mary had no use for a prolonged ride down the streets of Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment. She had a life to live, patients to care for. Death could be damned if it thought she was going to sit through that plodding trip that she, as a nurse of over 35 years, knew by heart. Since she would not stop for death, death stopped for her in a hospital room at St. Elizabeth's in Youngstown, Ohio where she resided a little over a week, surrounded constantly by her loving family.
