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what to wear for death

Apr 16, 2025
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My mother always made us pack a funeral outfit when we visited my grandparents in Kentucky: a dress with a slip and stockings for me, suits and ties for my brothers, dress shoes for alll. Grandmother and Gran Gran weren’t ill, but they were in their seventies, then their eighties… They could die at any time.

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