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The 2022 Recovery of Mom…moving 91 year old from CA to NYC

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Re: The 2022 Recovery of Mom…moving 91 year old from CA to NYC

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Well she drove herself to the Doctor yesterday , in Evita.

Cool stuff at the TWA hotel at JFK, and a low flying Constellation
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Mom passed peacefully in October 2023 and we scattered her ashes with Dads at one of her favourite places, Vista point in Oceanside , yesterday. We managed to have the entire next two generations in one spot for that!
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1 year today since Mom passed. Her driving Elizabeth the T5 still one of desktop pix…
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Your mom is an inspiration.
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Totally agree!

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Been overcome year since Mom passed , but travel note.
From the box of black and white pictures I have a honeymoon hotel picture …
September 1953
September 1953
… and this week I was able to identify it and stay in the same room 72 years later !!
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So little has changed - except the trees.
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That’s from stone instead of wood buildings

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Bristol England

Parents lived there 1953-1966
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