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>> she made a very loving home for us. no fights could end without hugs and kisses. singing was encouraged except at the dinner table. she was trained to be an actress when she was younger, and she would show us how to do stage falls by pretending to faint on the kitchen floor. she was fun. and i know it may sound greedy to want more days with a person who lived so long, but the fact that my mother was 92 does not diminish it, it only magnifies the enormity of the room whose door has now quietly shut. her favorite memory of prayer was a young mother tucking in her children. we were the light o...