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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
My Great Uncle John died last night. Grandad's second sibling in the last two years, and the baby of the family. The five of them seemed to have charmed lives until Auntie Alice died - they were all in their eighties and all compos mentis.
Of course no-one lives forever, but the Doyles were giving the impression of immunity for a while.
We didn't really know John - not like Auntie Alice, who was very much close family - but I feel it for Grandad.
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Sorry to hear about your Great Uncle, Sundae.
Like yourself, I always thought that as my older relatives had always been there, then they always would be. It is probably a defence mechanism.
Carruthers