Our family was lucky, in that we were able to share our feelings with Nanny before she passed away on April 1st. Mom asked us if we wanted to write letters to her (which she would read aloud). I didn't want to make mine very long, and I certainly didn't want it to be a typical “good-bye” letter. I certainly used my humor, which Mom assures me was not lost on my grandmother – though she was in a state of complete suspension (borderline coma, not responding to any stimuli, still fully conscious). It was a very difficult letter to write, but those words will be resting safely on printed sheets, folded up next to her for the rest of eternity in her casket. I do plan on writing to Nanny after tomorrow's burial. Those words, in her memory, will be shared with the world.