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Grandma Beulah: A Short Story

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Ring! I still remember the day we got the call that Great Grandma Beulah had passed away. My Mom, Dad, Sister and I were all at home. We knew that Beulah was having health issues such as having strokes, and she was of old age, so we had been trying to accept the fact that she was going to pass for some time now. A couple of months before, we visited the nursing home that she was staying at in Manson, Iowa.
It was March 2016, when me and my family visited her for the last time. She was barely responsive and if she talked the slightest bit,
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